brutally
/ˈbruːt(ə)li
/adverb
1In a savagely violent way: he was imprisoned and brutally tortured he brutally murdered an innocent man...
- In 1888, in the Whitechapel District of London, someone is brutally murdering prostitutes.
- Acting on his own desperation, he begins to brutally beat Jamie.
- He enters, and finds two people brutally murdered.
1.1 [as submodifier] In a direct way that does not attempt to disguise unpleasantness: she was unapologetic and brutally honest a brutally candid interview...
- The film has won accolades for being both brutally honest and very funny.
- I remember the movie's brutally accurate depiction of the rough South.
- He is a potentially fascinating character, charming, brutally insensitive, fun-loving and more of a child than any of his children.
1.2 [as submodifier] To an extremely unpleasant or harsh degree: weeks of brutally cold weather a brutally competitive market...
- With brutally unforgiving winters, and summers of drought and fist-sized hailstones, these states practically beg travelers to keep on moving.
- Firefighters faced brutally hot, dangerously dry conditions as they battled a wildfire outside Palm Springs.
- What I propose is a brutally mathematical system that nonetheless would be pretty straightforward.