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Definition of Brutish
1. Adjective. Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility. "Bestial treatment of prisoners"
Similar to: Inhumane
Derivative terms: Beast, Beastliness, Beast, Bestiality, Bestialize, Brutalize, Brutalize
Definition of Brutish
1. a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
Definition of Brutish
1. Adjective. Of, or in the manner of a brute ¹
2. Adjective. Bestial; lacking human sensibility ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brutish
1. brutal [adj] - See also: brutal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brutish
Literary usage of Brutish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated Out of the by Canadian Bible Society (1903)
"21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD : therefore
they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... and Nations, they neither doe nor can alledge any. §. III. Relations and
Depositions touching the Hollanders brutish and cruell usage of the English. ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... a brutish curled cri-w, In body like to antike worke de> ISL-I!, Of monstrous
simpe, and of an ugly hew, Like masking ..."
4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"... should be so blind concerning that religion, as to think (if they think about
it at all) that such brutish creatures, as these Collegians are, ..."
5. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... however puerile and brutish; that they were pusillanimous and feeble-minded;
and that in fine they were wanting in everything that makes men worthy the ..."
6. The Book of the Church by Robert Southey (1825)
"... and not a few, it is believed, by remorse of conscience, for having joined in
the ‘wicked and brutish clamour with which he had been hunted down. ..."
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