brutishlyadv.
/ˈbruːtɪʃli/ 1. In a brutish manner; irrationally, sensually.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > animal nature of man > [adverb]
brutishly1579
brutely1645
1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 749 He reasoneth brutishly with putting such cases.
1674 J. Bryan Harvest-home iii. 11 Brutishly sottish, and stupidly irrational.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 9 They were so brutishly wicked.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. x. 74 Why not live brutishly, obey my law?
2. With brutish indifference to the feelings; coarsely, boorishly, savagely, brutally.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adverb] > unmannerly > roughly or with lack of refinement
homelyc1390
rudelyc1405
greata1425
swinishly1542
clubbishly1548
carterly1556
homelily1556
brutishly1580
loutishly1580
boorishly1605
brutely1605
inurbanely1610
mechanically1613
porterly1659
coarsely1678
coarse1680
brutally1824
vulgarly1831
crudely1881
cubbishly1883
yobbishly1984
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adverb] > inhumanly
unmanlyc1454
inhumanly1490
unhumanly1586
inhumanlike1595
inhumanely1598
immanely1612
beastly1652
brutally1749
brutishly1807
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Mastiner..to reuile one and vse him mastife like, brutishly, foulye.
1688 J. Knatchbull Diary in Notes & Queries iii. VI. 3 They brutishly answered, Damn you..how will you endure hell-fire?
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 129 Sitting there to hear his decrees most brutishly and effrontrously arraigned, &c.
1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. vi. 310 Even Iona had orchards..till the Vikingr brutishly ruined all.
a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) iii. 174 A very curious edifice..was..brutishly obliterated, without one public murmur.
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