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.
Wiktionary
n. the characteristic of being brutish
Usage examples of "brutishness".
His dominant, iron-clad, primeval brutishness was what enabled him to effect the transmutation.
In return, he cursed them for their selfish brutishness, and blows and kicks and curses were rained upon him.
He was a professional, and all the fighting brutishness of him was reserved for his professional appearances.
Some problems we solved with brainwork, some with handwork, some with brutishness the texture of the ink, a mix of soot and varnish and linseed oil, was improved by pissing in it.
His dominant, iron-clad, primeval brutishness was what enabled him to effect the transmutation.
In return, he cursed them for their selfish brutishness, and blows and kicks and curses were rained upon him.
Perhaps that air of mysticism had saved Mm from Fitzhugh's brutishness, but Geoffrey saw no use for it now.
His past life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the Bishop's pardon, -- all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed.
A savage in all the horrible acceptation of the word, and so much the more frightful that he seemed fallen to the lowest degree of brutishness!