(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.
Troglodyte
Definition:
(n.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.
(n.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.
(n.) The wren.
Example Sentences:
(1) The polymorphic epitope recognized by 7.3.19.1 is not only present on human cells but is also expressed on chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) class II-positive cells.
(2) The general ridge alignments are very similar to those of the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes); Biegert ('61).
(3) The analysis of the karyotype of pygmee Chimpanzee (Pan paniscus), and its comparison with the one of Pan troglodytes shows some differences on chromosomes 2q, 7, 13, and 22.
(4) This study demonstrates a useful methodology for judging the personality of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthi).
(5) For the first time in Czechoslovakia, two strains of Yucaipa paramyxovirus were isolated, both of them from Troglodytes troglodytes.
(6) Sixty-one chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) from various sources and backgrounds have been resocialized in a cage setting and integrated into social unit groupings.
(7) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(8) A qualitative study is presented of chromosomal rearrangements induced by gamma-irradiation at 2 Gy and 3 Gy in peripheral blood lymphocytes of the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes.
(9) The group-specific component (Gc) was examined in a sample of 78 chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
(10) Ten independant cellular hybrids were obtained from Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) fibroblasts and the murine cell line C11D.
(11) Young chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) will accept ethanol in quantities sufficient to produce symptoms of withdrawal when ethanol is subsequently discontinued.
(12) Exoerythrocytic stage parasites of Plasmodium malariae were obtained in vitro by inoculating primary cultures of hepatocytes from a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and a monkey (Aotus lemurinus griseimembra) with sporozoites.
(13) The lateral meniscus is disc-shaped, with a central foramen, in Catarrhinii (Old World monkeys), in Hylobates, in Gorilla and in Pan Troglodytes.
(14) Here, two sunbeams in the troglodytic gloom, they drink Starbucks, fire off emails, write books, and generally plan the next stage of the revolution.
(15) Comparison of the sequences of those gamma chains from Homo sapiens, Pan troglodytes, Macaca nemestrina and P. cynocephalus that have been well characterized attests to the conservative nature of gamma-chain evolution among the Anthropoidea, the differences in sequence between any two of these chains ranging from none (between the A gamma and G gamma chains of P. troglodytes and H. sapiens) to no more than five (between the V gamma chains of P. cynocephalus and the A gamma chains of H. sapiens).
(16) The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) has been widely studied as a model for the epidemiological forms referred to as "blood-transmitted" and "coagulation-factor-transmitted" non-A, non-B hepatitis.
(17) The comparative sample consists of 42 Homo sapiens, 27 Pan troglodytes, 29 Gorilla gorilla and 29 Pongo pygmaeus.
(18) In this article results are reported from 3 warning stimulus-priming experiments that assessed hemisphere-specific activation and lateralization in 2 language-trained chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
(19) Mild, transient proteinuria and azotemia were produced in three cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) and a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) following intravenous inoculation with Prospect Hill virus, a hantavirus isolated from meadow voles in the United States.
(20) Measurements of frontal sinus volumes were determined for Gorilla gorilla gorilla; G. gorilla beringei and Pan troglodytes.