brutish
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animalistic, beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, feral, ferine, subhuman, swinish
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Berwanger chose not to play pro—as did many early N.F.L. picks, life in the league being brutish, poorly compensated, and short. — Rich Cohen, Harper's magazine, "The Wood Chipper," 19 Aug. 2019 Eva has nearly resigned herself to a spinsterhood of caring for Sydney; as a different kind of duty, Ethel has married a brutish farmer who served in the war. — Jesse Green, New York Times, "In Chicago’s Vibrant Theater Scene, Two Tales of One City," 7 June 2019 This nasty, brutish chapter of American politics has voters hungering for stable leadership, a unifying vision, a path out of the darkness. — Molly Ball, Time, "What Do the Democrats Stand For? Inside a Fight Over America's Future," 25 July 2019 The ones who are most helpful to the kids are themselves divorced from society in some way or another: the neurotic Joyce; the brutish, alcohol-dependent Hopper; and the abrasive conspiracy theorist Murray. — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, "The New Season of “Stranger Things” Shows the Limits of Kids Saving the World," 9 July 2019 Since 2013, history buffs have been on a wild ride following Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) and the rest of his brutish bunch on Vikings. — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, "The 'Vikings' Show Is Officially Cancelled and Fans Are Devastated," 8 Jan. 2019 Clostermann, a Frenchman, joined the RAF after the fall of France in 1940 and ended up flying Spitfires and then the big brutish Hawker Tempests. — James Holland, WSJ, "Five Best: James Holland on World War II Memoirs," 3 Jan. 2019 That night, the audience seemed almost too eager to congratulate itself on being above and beyond the play’s brutish men and suffering women. — Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times, "For all its horrors, ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ at Seattle Rep feels uncomfortably comforting," 15 Oct. 2018 What Google has built is a vastly more intelligent sibling to the brutish long exposure. — Vlad Savov, The Verge, "Google gives the Pixel camera superhuman night vision," 14 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'brutish.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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