Crossword clues for brutish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. [1913 Webster] -- Bru"tish*ly, adv. -- Bru"tish*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "pertaining to animals," from brute (n.) + -ish. In reference to human brutes, from 1550s. Related: Brutishly; brutishness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or in the manner of a brute 2 bestial; lacking human sensibility
WordNet
Usage examples of "brutish".
He was a slender, weazened man, nervous, irritable, high-strung, and anaemic--a typical child of the gutter, with unbeautiful twisted features, small-eyed, with face and mouth perpetually and feverishly hungry, brutish in a cat-like way, stamped to the core with degeneracy.
Gwydion struggled to his feet, then set off at a jog after the brutish denizens.
He turned to his brutish fellow, but found the wolf-headed creature frozen in place.
Then the scales tipped back the other way, and the brutish denizen rose, screaming, high into the air.
The brutish soldiers had immediately constructed barricades across both bridges, barricades that now kept the Zhentish from fleeing the giants and dragons.
They had come probing deep into Shilmista on orders from Ragnor, the brutish, unmerciful ogrillon.
She fingered her magical onyx ring, considering the time it would take for her to loose its fiery fury, and the potential for that fury to stop the brutish ogrillon.
Their goal was in plain sight, and their strides quickened when a burly, brutish monster stepped from the fine tent.
How much larger the brutish ogrillon seemed to him now, with his horse lying dead at his side.
To see him pad his paunch with dainty cheer, Puff his perfecto, swill champagne, and sway Just like a gentleman, yet all in play, Then bow himself off stage with brutish leer.
Just a little joy to still set my pulses all a-thrill, Then back to brutish labour once again.
As brutish and barbarous as these fellows were at home, their stomachs turned at this sight, and they did not know what to do.
In a village near the last of these places I had the curiosity to go and see their way of living, which is most brutish and unsufferable.
The biggest de Burgh looked positively brutish, as if he would kill her where she stood, and he was not the only one.
Backing up a step, she thought to fend them all off: the brutish Wolf, his wife, their attendants, and the husband who had finally showed his true self.