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brutish

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brut·ish  (brtsh)
adj.
1. Of or characteristic of a brute.
2. Crude in feeling or manner.
3. Sensual; carnal.
4. Rough; uncivilized: "the Mesabi Iron Range, a brutish stretch of maroon hillocks" (John McCormick).

brutish·ly adv.
brutish·ness n.

brutish
Adjective
1. of or resembling a brute; animal
2. coarse; cruel; stupid
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.brutish - resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
inhumane - lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion; "humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used"

brutish
Translations
brutish [ˈbruːtɪʃ] adjbrutal
brutish [ˈbruːtɪʃ] adjgrossier/ère, brutal(e)
brutish [ˈbruːtɪʃ] adjtierisch
brutish [ˈbruːtɪʃ] adjda bruto


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On the other hand, the great helpless mass of the population, the people of the abyss, was sinking into a brutish apathy of content with misery.
Picture the squalid misery of their brutish existence, dragged on from year to year in the narrow, noisome room where, huddled like vermin in sewers, they welter, and sicken, and sleep; where dirt-grimed children scream and fight and sluttish, shrill-voiced women cuff, and curse, and nag; where the street outside teems with roaring filth and the house around is a bedlam of riot and stench.
It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in mere brutish sleep.
 
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