brutish

Speech parts

1. brutish - Adjective

2. brutish - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.

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Examples

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. Herbert Read

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style. Stella Gibbons

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. Federica Montseny

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. Alexander Berkman

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. Charlie Chaplin

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