brutishness

Examples

• All

• I admired the radicals' egalitarian energy, especially when directed against the public sector's brutishness, which I despised from fear.

  Fiction book (2000)

• There is a holiness in those cemeteries, both of nature and its beauties and of religion in all its forms, that defies hatred and brutishness, speaks of the immortal, and touches eternity.

  Academic text (1997)

• The natural outcome was a radical decline in intellectual, artistic, and religious life, chaos, banality, and brutishness in the world at large, and the replacement of traditional patterns of life by commerce, bureaucracy, and makeshift stopgaps.

  Blog text (26)

• Many were appalled by the brutishness displayed during the protests, as it overshadowed the peaceful intentions of the movement.

• Her brutishness was evident in the way she treated her coworkers, often resorting to insults instead of constructive criticism.

Synonyms

V

vulgarity

vsbrutishness

• NSFW

18 7.4

A lack of good taste and politeness in speech or behavior

also implies a lack of intelligence beyond mere poor taste

R

rawness

vsbrutishness

3 5.5

An unfinished, rough quality that feels unpolished

adds a sense of low intelligence as well as incompleteness

C

coarseness

vsbrutishness

2 6.4

Rudeness or crude behavior that shows little politeness

also suggests low intelligence in behaviour, not only rudeness

C

crudeness

vsbrutishness

1 4.9

Something that is rough and not finished, like a simple tool or shelter

also implies absence of intelligence rather than only being unrefined

R

roughness

vsbrutishness

1 3.8

A plain, simple way of behaving or looking

is stronger and implies lack of intelligence as well as unpolished ways

C

crudity

vsbrutishness

1 8.2

A raw, rough quality that feels unfinished and not careful

adds the sense of unintelligent coarse behaviour rather than mere lack of polish

C

crassitude

vsbrutishness

• Offensive

9.9

A strong lack of care for other people's feelings and good taste

also involves low intelligence as well as blunt behaviour

Antonyms

I

intelligence

418 3.0

Ability to learn, understand, and use knowledge to solve problems

R

refinement

10 5.9

A polished, elegant way of acting that shows good taste

How Coarse

brutishness

• Offensive

7.2

crudeness

• NSFW

1 6.3

rudeness

27 1.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology