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brutal

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1. brutal - Adjective

2. brutal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.

Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.

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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. Benjamin Spock

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. Liu Xiaobo

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. Flannery O’Connor

It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon. Alexander Berkman

Intellectuals advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience. Allan Bloom

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went. Ani DiFranco

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