Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being brutish in nature, disposition, or appearance; savageness.
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- noun The characteristic of being
brutish .
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Examples
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Not the cuteness exactly, but people generally stumble when trying to make female versions of the ugly humanoids; a certain kind of brutishness fits much more neatly into people's idealized male than idealized female.
Ragnarok Musings 2004
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The American business magazine decried the bear's "brutishness" and its threat to an interdependent world; labeled Russia "a gangster state" ruled by a "kleptocracy."
Foreign Policy In Focus Herbert Bix 2008
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Here were coarseness and brutishness -- a thing savage, primordial, ferocious.
Chapter 4 2010
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Not only does she dress and sing like Marilyn Monroe, she has that bruised blond Bus Stop attitude, the beauty of the butterfly about to be stomped by the steel-toed boot of male brutishness.
Thelma Adams: Naughty, Naughty: Carey Mulligan's Nude in Shame, Too Thelma Adams 2011
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She was aware only of the brutishness of this man's hands and mind.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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Larry could stand no more than an hour in irons, at which time his stupid brutishness overcame any fear he might have possessed, because he bellowed out to the poop to come down and loose him for a fair fight.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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They were a gorgeous group and though they lacked the brutishness of the Beholders, they still gave every appearance of being dangerous.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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Here was killing without cause, an orgy of blind-brutishness, a thing monstrously irrational.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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American war talk is this utterly weird mixture of anger and self-pity and bragging and fear and whining and brutishness.
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A cruel thing happened just before supper, indicative of the callousness and brutishness of these men.
Chapter 6 2010
bilby commented on the word brutishness
Here, here, oh here! Euridice,
Here was she slaine ;
Her soule 'still'd through a veine :
The Gods knew lesse
That time Divinitie,
Then ev'n, ev'n these
Of brutishnesse.
- Richard Lovelace, 'Orpheus to Beasts'.
February 7, 2009