(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.
Caveman
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) For a moment I think some jealous caveman has bludgeoned me with a club but, from my prone position, I can see that there is a nasty rock protrusion at head height.
(2) Wild Words of Sport (@WWofSport) @Simon_Burnton Nadal, with his caveman grunting, his undie-picking, is a visceral beast.
(3) In her essay about trying the Impossible Burger , she talked about her mixed emotion at taking her first bite: “As I took my second and third bites, I started to wonder if eating this Impossible Burger would flip some long repressed caveman switch in my brain, making me crave meat again.” As she pointed out, to make a real dent in cutting our greenhouse gas emissions, we will need McDonald’s to give the meatless burger a shot.
(4) Still, we only manage to get round to a fraction of the carts, missing out the likes of the Cultured Caveman with its paleo-diet offerings or "sweetgeist" merchant Sugar Cube , with its transgressive take on cakes: the "Amy Winehouse" is topped with icing sugar "coke", its chocolate caramel cupcakes are penetrated by salted potato chips.
(5) (Her opening line: "It was like I had been conked over the head by a caveman… ") Not a day goes by, she tells me, without someone asking her about Salinger.
(6) In fact, in her opinion, they just show how easily manipulated some men can be: "To watch Gisele showing clearly that a clever woman can get anything from a man just by behaving in a sexy manner shows a sort of caveman quality that some guys have, and that intelligent women know how to take advantage of it."
(7) A caveman holds in one hand a pot labelled “petrol”, in the other a wooden stick, aflame, labelled “fire”.
(8) You are saying: ‘Your stupid small-minded caveman politics are irrelevant.’” A non-practicing Muslim, she insists her ethnicity is not an issue on the doorstep.
(9) The idea, also called the caveman, hunter-gatherer or paleolithic diet, has been around for decades and is regularly recycled - as it was in various newspapers earlier this week after the regime was discussed at a meeting of the British Society for Allergy, Environmental and Nutritional Medicine.
(10) Inside his van there was a mattress, blankets and baseball bat, according to one former employee, who called Bellfield "an animal" and a "caveman".
(11) It is the politics of the first caveman council where the caveman came out from the council where there had been difficult decisions and pointed with his club across the forest and said: ‘There, over there.
(12) If Donald Trump “didn’t share her last name, it’s fair to wonder which party Ivanka Trump would back in 2016”, wrote Philip Bump in the Washington Post, while Rebecca Traister of New York magazine asked more pointedly: “Why is Ivanka trying to pass off her caveman dad as a paragon of gender equality?
(13) This is said to be true for women in terms of fertility and ovulation, and for everyone in terms of digestion, hence the current popularity of the "Paleo" or "caveman" diet .
(14) Interviewers have variously likened him to a charolais bull, a builders' skip, a circus acrobat holding up the human pyramid, a "runaway truck" of a man, and caveman meets Cary Grant.
(15) "Guys have been putting their dicks in boxes since caveman days."