brutish
- animal adj.
- barbarous adj.
- bestial adj.
- brutal adj.
- coarse adj.
- cruel adj.
- devilish adj.
- ferocious adj.
- fiendish adj.
- fierce adj.
- hardhearted adj.
- indelicate adj.
- mindless adj.
- ogreish adj.
- Philistine adj.
- primitive adj.
- rude adj.
- satanical adj.
- savage adj.
- uncivilized adj.
- unrefined adj.
- unthinking adj.
- beastly adv.
Example Sentences
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It isn’t creedal or expansive, will likely be more brutish and narrow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
“It could make life less nasty, less brutish, and less short—and less hard.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
He quotes the philosopher Thomas Hobbes that our lives have been “nasty, brutish and short.”
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2025
“There’s not much there and it’s certainly not intellectually or spiritually illuminating in any way, shape or form. They are brutish entertainers, and that’s it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025
He behaved like a brute because he was rewarded for brutish behavior. after his arrival.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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