(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
Example Sentences:
(1) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(2) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.
(3) "There has been a collision of a large amount of immigration from eastern Europe and a UK labour market that is frankly too often nasty, brutish and short-term," he said.
(4) Yet it still felt vaguely surprising when Yaya Touré shrugged himself from his own fitful display – occasionally at his brutish best, just as often rather sluggish, and nothing like the player who rampaged in this arena as City all but claimed the title last April – to fizz in a riposte 12 minutes from time, but there was to be no relief at the end.
(5) It also shocked by laying bare Johnson's brutish, bullying, coarse ways.
(6) To go back to Miliband, all that points to work that is indeed "nasty, brutish and short term" – but both main parties seem happy to underwrite it.
(7) The brutish Polish husband of A Streetcar Named Desire was much less given to windy rhetoric, or at least he remained inarticulate.
(8) If they do not change their business model, what remains of their existence will be nasty, brutish and short.” The call for a shakeup comes less than 24 hours after another thinktank, the Carbon Tracker Initiative, also called on oil companies to slim down and base their business models around global warming targets .
(9) The underbelly of the global economy has become a dark, brutish realm in which under-regulated labour markets provide minimised production costs for dozens of commodities exported around the world.
(10) Good government shouldn’t have to resort to brutish, bully-boy tactics like this.” After the government released the Forgotten Children report on Wednesday night – having received it in November – Tony Abbott described it as a “transparent stitch-up” and a “blatantly partisan exercise”.
(11) With his physicality, rugged looks and gallery of piercing stares, he excels as tough, brutish characters with an underlying vulnerability.
(12) The new Queensland senator Matthew Canavan used his maiden speech to say: “I want to put on the record my admiration and support for our fossil fuel industry and the thousands of jobs it supports … Fossil fuels have made more contribution than almost any other product or invention towards humanity's long ascent from lives that were nasty, brutish and short to ones of comparative luxury and leisure.
(13) Opponents of the tax rightly attack the brutishness of the catch-all – hitting foster parents, the disabled, the modern family with all its patchwork ways.
(14) But even as Johnson receded into history, Caro's unflagging enthusiasm for his subject was fed by a craving to understand how this brutish, bullying, often racist man struggled out of the grip of rural Texas.
(15) These workers are more willing to fill jobs that are temporary, low-paid, with bad conditions, and no training or career progression – "nasty, brutish, and short term", as Miliband summed them up today.
(16) A standard-bearer for courage in the face of brutish (male) authority.
(17) Charting events including the war on terror and the Hutton enquiry, the 800-page tome was described in the Guardian as "nasty, brutish and long ... the edited outpouring of an obsessive" .
(18) The Goya-like record of the atrocities that have marked the Syrian conflict from the beginning is long and brutish.
(19) It's a huge role for Clarke, his biggest to date, and his performance – one moment heartily brutish, the next bluff and likable – is an excellent foil to Jessica Chastain's taut anxiety.
(20) Their boss, Brendan Barber, gleefully hailed "a darker, more brutish, more frightening" Britain ahead.
Brutishness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(2) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.
(3) "There has been a collision of a large amount of immigration from eastern Europe and a UK labour market that is frankly too often nasty, brutish and short-term," he said.
(4) Yet it still felt vaguely surprising when Yaya Touré shrugged himself from his own fitful display – occasionally at his brutish best, just as often rather sluggish, and nothing like the player who rampaged in this arena as City all but claimed the title last April – to fizz in a riposte 12 minutes from time, but there was to be no relief at the end.
(5) It also shocked by laying bare Johnson's brutish, bullying, coarse ways.
(6) To go back to Miliband, all that points to work that is indeed "nasty, brutish and short term" – but both main parties seem happy to underwrite it.
(7) The brutish Polish husband of A Streetcar Named Desire was much less given to windy rhetoric, or at least he remained inarticulate.
(8) If they do not change their business model, what remains of their existence will be nasty, brutish and short.” The call for a shakeup comes less than 24 hours after another thinktank, the Carbon Tracker Initiative, also called on oil companies to slim down and base their business models around global warming targets .
(9) The underbelly of the global economy has become a dark, brutish realm in which under-regulated labour markets provide minimised production costs for dozens of commodities exported around the world.
(10) Good government shouldn’t have to resort to brutish, bully-boy tactics like this.” After the government released the Forgotten Children report on Wednesday night – having received it in November – Tony Abbott described it as a “transparent stitch-up” and a “blatantly partisan exercise”.
(11) With his physicality, rugged looks and gallery of piercing stares, he excels as tough, brutish characters with an underlying vulnerability.
(12) The new Queensland senator Matthew Canavan used his maiden speech to say: “I want to put on the record my admiration and support for our fossil fuel industry and the thousands of jobs it supports … Fossil fuels have made more contribution than almost any other product or invention towards humanity's long ascent from lives that were nasty, brutish and short to ones of comparative luxury and leisure.
(13) Opponents of the tax rightly attack the brutishness of the catch-all – hitting foster parents, the disabled, the modern family with all its patchwork ways.
(14) But even as Johnson receded into history, Caro's unflagging enthusiasm for his subject was fed by a craving to understand how this brutish, bullying, often racist man struggled out of the grip of rural Texas.
(15) These workers are more willing to fill jobs that are temporary, low-paid, with bad conditions, and no training or career progression – "nasty, brutish, and short term", as Miliband summed them up today.
(16) A standard-bearer for courage in the face of brutish (male) authority.
(17) Charting events including the war on terror and the Hutton enquiry, the 800-page tome was described in the Guardian as "nasty, brutish and long ... the edited outpouring of an obsessive" .
(18) The Goya-like record of the atrocities that have marked the Syrian conflict from the beginning is long and brutish.
(19) It's a huge role for Clarke, his biggest to date, and his performance – one moment heartily brutish, the next bluff and likable – is an excellent foil to Jessica Chastain's taut anxiety.
(20) Their boss, Brendan Barber, gleefully hailed "a darker, more brutish, more frightening" Britain ahead.