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brutally

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bru·tal  (brtl)
adj.
1. Extremely ruthless or cruel.
2. Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
3. Harsh; unrelenting: a brutal winter in the Arctic.
4. Disagreeably precise or penetrating: spoke with brutal honesty.

brutal·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.brutallybrutally - in a vicious manner; "he was viciously attacked"

brutally
adverb
2. mercilessly, fiercely, cruelly, relentlessly, ferociously, remorselessly, pitilessly The talks had been brutally frank.
3. savagely, cruelly, dangerously, ferociously, fiendishly, fiercely The early morning New York air can be brutally cold.
Translations
brutally [ˈbruːtəlɪ] ADV
1. (= savagely) [attack, murder, suppress] → de manera brutal, brutalmente
2. (= starkly) [say, reply, expose] → crudamente, descarnadamente
let me be brutally honest/frank with youvoy a serte tremendamente sincero/franco
the talks had been brutally franklas conversaciones habían sido francas y crudas
a brutally competitive worldun mundo despiadadamente competitivo
the choice is brutally clearla elección es de una claridad cruel or despiadada
brutally [ˈbruːtəli] adv
(= savagely) [attack, torture] → brutalement
to be brutally murdered → être sauvagement assassiné(e)
(= unsparingly) [frank, honest] → brutalement, de façon brutale
(= terribly) → terriblement
brutally
advbrutal; I’ll be brutally frankich werde schonungslos offen sein
brutally [ˈbruːtəlɪ] advbrutalmente
brutally [ˈbruːtəlɪ] advbrutalmente


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The Firm to which I was brutally consigned, as if I was a bale of merchandise, has worn out my patience by a series of petty insults; and I have felt compelled, from motives of self-respect, to withdraw my services, which were undervalued from the first.
I threw all precaution to the winds, threw myself with fiercer zeal into the fight for socialism, laughed at the editors and publishers who warned me and who were the sources of my hundred porterhouses a day, and was brutally careless of whose feelings I hurt and of how savagely I hurt them.
It was said she had been brutally jilted by her cousin, Rutland Whitney, and that she married this unknown man from the West out of bravado.
 
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