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brutal
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., in reference to the nature of animals, from Latin brutus (see brute (adj.)) + -al (1). Of persons, "fierce," 1640s. Related: Brutally .
Usage examples of brutal.
The harassment was so severe that his accuser, Anita Hill, continued working for Thomas for years, followed him to other jobs, exchanged friendly correspondence with him, and kept the story of her brutal victimization a secret for the next, oh, decade or so.
Anglo-Canadian armies in the brutal, slugging battles for Caen and Falaise the spectacular advances made elsewhere by the Allied forces could never have come about.
Major Domo had done his best to mitigate the more brutal requirements of his job, and he and the Archon had eventually achieved a degree of mutual respect.
A third, the oldest and dearest of all, lies wounded at Bridgewater, at the mercy of a brutal soldiery.
The listeners were tough brutal men, long used to the ways of Brigandry, but they listened in growing horror to the stories of butchery, rape and naked blood-lust.
Expressed in its simplest terms, it is a demand that the practice of animal experimentation shall be investigated by the State to determine what is actually being done, and that thereafter legislation shall be had that shall place it under such supervision and restriction as shall insure differentiation between scientific investigation performed for wise and adequate ends and purposes on the one hand, and on the other acts of a painful and brutal character performed from unworthy motives, with no adequate benefit possible as a resultant, and which clearly come within the classification of cruelty.
Thus ended the brutal reign of the infamous Tonton Macoutes who had probably killed another 20,000 people under the presidency of Baby Doc.
Brought to the country centuries ago, as brutal savages from Africa, they had learned nothing of Christian civilization, except that it meant endless toil, in malarious swamps, under the lash of the taskmaster.
There were many strange things taking place, but the strangest of all, to Clevinger, was the hatred, the brutal, uncloaked, inexorable hatred of the members of the Action Board, glazing their unforgiving expressions with a hard, vindictive surface, glowing in their narrowed eyes malignantly like inextinguishable coals.
The brutal manner in which Fallow had been mangled suggested the power of a giant - not the limited strength of a midget or a dwarf.
It would send a message to all the other police officers, on both sides of the Atlantic, cops neither as dedicated nor as driven as Lo Manto, that to interfere in Camorra business would only result in a brutal end.
This tangi ble evidence of his grief caused Marcie more agony than the brutal car crash.
In the deepest part of her brutal incision the hollow irregular mastoid cells were larger, and Sanger perceived a larger cavity the size of her fingertip before upwelling gore from surrounding tissue blocked her view.
The ripping off of the shelter that has kept out a thousand storms, the tearing off of the once ornamental woodwork, the wrench of the inexorable crowbar, the murderous blows of the axe, the progressive ruin, which ends by rending all the joints asunder and flinging the tenoned and mortised timbers into heaps that will be sawed and split to warm some new habitation as firewood,--what a brutal act of destruction it seems!
Thus, it is not enough for the Kurds that Saddam be overthrown, because a successor regime could actually be worse for them--another brutal Sunni dictator who was smart enough to abide by all of the U.