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2 definitions found 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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