brutish
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7.2
- adjective
- /ˈbruːtɪʃ/
- Offensive
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bestial
- The dictator's brutish behavior left the citizens in fear and despair.
- nasty and brutish
- brutish and short
- solitary, nasty, brutish
And our lives were, in his words, nasty, brutish and short.
- And our lives were, in his words, nasty, brutish and short.
- He tells us that the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- This is the stage of nature and he describes it as solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- So this image of hunter gatherer life as you know, just nasty, brutish and short.
- It is just so massive and so like serious and so brutish.
- We we don't want to become brutalized by our own efforts to defend ourselves, which is to say be made more brutal or brutish.
Examples
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It's just that life in the Project tends to be mean, nasty, brutish, and short.
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And it's Thomas Hobbes who said that before the state, human life was solitary, poor and nasty, brutish and short, right.
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I mean, life is so short and sometimes brutish and nasty.
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And our lives were, in his words, nasty, brutish and short.
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"Life is nasty, brutish and short," as the man said.
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"Life, by its very nature, is nasty, brutish and short."
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It's nasty, it's brutish, it's short, but it's discernible.
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It's solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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And the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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Thomas Hobbes famously said that in a state of nature the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Synonyms
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4.8
Very cruel and violent, causing pain or suffering
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6.5
Showing little concern for other people's feelings
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8.5
Very cruel and violent like an angry wild animal
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6.5
Cruel and showing no care for other people like an animal
Antonyms
How Brutish
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Morphology
Etymology
Brutish comes from the simple word brute, which comes from Latin brutus meaning 'heavy' or 'dull'. A brute came to mean an animal or a violent person, so brutish means 'like an animal' or 'without human feeling'.