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单词 brutish
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Definition of brutish in English:

brutish

adjective ˈbruːtɪʃˈbrudɪʃ
  • Resembling or characteristic of a brute.

    he was coarse and brutish
    brutish behaviour
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One would like to think humans are benign but it would seem we're brutish, which is why I'm interested in literature around that.
    • I was too small to wrestle on equal terms with the brutish currents of the surging Rhine minutes after the collapse of the bridge at Remagen.
    • You don't suddenly tolerate brutish behavior because it is your child causing the harm.
    • I think they think that wrestlers might be kind of like these brutish, kind of mannish girls.
    • Keen to erase his brutish image, he has agreed to allow me and a Sunday Times photographer to shadow him for three days.
    • If we do not speak out and act to stop the brutish behaviour of our Government, then we become accomplices to its wrongdoings.
    • I think it's something about the brutish character who is forced to act in a civilized manner, you want him to succeed, even where you know he'll fail.
    • It is telling that his hero is an honest cop, sometimes brutish but never cruel.
    • Behind each crest of a ravenous bird or brutish beast lay men equally as daunting.
    • As for his women he can be charming when necessary, brutish otherwise, and contemptuous thereafter.
    • But Atuat is promised to Oki, a particularly nasty, brutish and short member of their small nomadic community.
    • Yet many argue that this liberalisation of drinking hours is now contributing to the brutish behaviour on the streets.
    • This morning at about seven, I heard one of the eldest boys forcibly eject Bobbie from the house in a rather brutish manner.
    • When it comes to brutish tactics and mercilessness, Stefan knows no limits.
    • Stupid, brutish, inarticulate, prone to destroying things when enraged - this is not a hero.
    • When the play was filmed in 1951, his brutish, inarticulate Kowalski unleashed a cry of anguish that would echo down the decades.
    • Perhaps the most powerful film is ‘Dekalog 5’, in which a brutish youth murders a taxi driver in cold blood, is captured, put on trial and hanged.
    • What can the perpetrator of these crimes use to justify his brutish means to achieve his fiendish ends?
    • The Sparks increased their signature brutish nature to win their seventh consecutive game.
    • Rather a nasty, brutish man, he seems to delight in tormenting Harry Potter.
    Synonyms
    brutal, barbaric, barbarous, savage, vicious, wicked, cruel, nasty, ruthless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible

Derivatives

  • brutishly

  • adverb
    • Harnessed to German nationalism and the rise of Hitler, he felt that authenticity for the German people was to be seen in National Socialism, and let his philosophy endorse the most brutishly unphilosophical of regimes.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In Torun, close to the Kosmos Hotel, he was beaten more brutishly, bound more thoroughly and gagged.
      • As you know, a starter is a brutishly heavy collection of magnets mounted on a rotating axis inside a cylinder of thick braided wire.
      • He weighs 20 stone, is brutishly frank, ran a first-division football club and now has Germans riveted as the nation's entrepreneurial guru and ‘Big Boss‘.
      • It's brutishly fast - the company claims the car will hit 60 mph in under 4.7 seconds, and 100 mph in 10 seconds.
  • brutishness

  • noun ˈbruːtɪʃnəsˈbrudɪʃnəs
    • The former, who showed no mercy to those who were physically less endowed than them, sowed the seeds of injustice and naked brutishness that stalk the country today.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They despair of the moral decline and the ugly brutishness that characterise much of urban Britain.
      • It's a word which shows a feeble mind and a tendency to brutishness.
      • My son would like to join the army, but he is understandably concerned about being exposed to such brutishness.
      • Killigrew's original play aimed to demonstrate the brutishness of the British Cavaliers as they stormed through other countries and left paths of ruined women in the wake.

Rhymes

Jutish
 
 

Definition of brutish in US English:

brutish

adjectiveˈbro͞odiSHˈbrudɪʃ
  • Resembling or characteristic of a brute.

    brutish behavior
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was too small to wrestle on equal terms with the brutish currents of the surging Rhine minutes after the collapse of the bridge at Remagen.
    • As for his women he can be charming when necessary, brutish otherwise, and contemptuous thereafter.
    • What can the perpetrator of these crimes use to justify his brutish means to achieve his fiendish ends?
    • It is telling that his hero is an honest cop, sometimes brutish but never cruel.
    • Keen to erase his brutish image, he has agreed to allow me and a Sunday Times photographer to shadow him for three days.
    • When it comes to brutish tactics and mercilessness, Stefan knows no limits.
    • When the play was filmed in 1951, his brutish, inarticulate Kowalski unleashed a cry of anguish that would echo down the decades.
    • Behind each crest of a ravenous bird or brutish beast lay men equally as daunting.
    • I think they think that wrestlers might be kind of like these brutish, kind of mannish girls.
    • But Atuat is promised to Oki, a particularly nasty, brutish and short member of their small nomadic community.
    • You don't suddenly tolerate brutish behavior because it is your child causing the harm.
    • The Sparks increased their signature brutish nature to win their seventh consecutive game.
    • One would like to think humans are benign but it would seem we're brutish, which is why I'm interested in literature around that.
    • Perhaps the most powerful film is ‘Dekalog 5’, in which a brutish youth murders a taxi driver in cold blood, is captured, put on trial and hanged.
    • Rather a nasty, brutish man, he seems to delight in tormenting Harry Potter.
    • Stupid, brutish, inarticulate, prone to destroying things when enraged - this is not a hero.
    • I think it's something about the brutish character who is forced to act in a civilized manner, you want him to succeed, even where you know he'll fail.
    • This morning at about seven, I heard one of the eldest boys forcibly eject Bobbie from the house in a rather brutish manner.
    • Yet many argue that this liberalisation of drinking hours is now contributing to the brutish behaviour on the streets.
    • If we do not speak out and act to stop the brutish behaviour of our Government, then we become accomplices to its wrongdoings.
    Synonyms
    brutal, barbaric, barbarous, savage, vicious, wicked, cruel, nasty, ruthless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible
 
 
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