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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Brutish \Bru"tish\, a.
Pertaining to or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel,
gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can
devise. --Leigh Hunt.
Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain
that he would seek to take the rank and density of the
brute. --I. Taylor.
Syn: Insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal;
barbarous; inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual;
bestial. -- {Bru"tish*ly}, adv -- {Bru"tish*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
brutish
adj : resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force";
"a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of
prisoners" [syn: {beastly}, {bestial}, {brute(a)}]
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