brutish
English
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[edit]brutish (comparative more brutish, superlative most brutish)
- Of, or in the manner of a brute.
- Bestial; lacking human sensibility.
- Synonyms: animalistic, beastly; barbaric, wolfish; see also Thesaurus:animallike, Thesaurus:savage
- 2009 March 30, Edward Rothstein, “Casting a Sliver of Light on the Heart of Darkness”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 27 July 2020:
- And then came others, possessing weaponry and a sophisticated support before which tribes in dense jungles had no recourse: European concessionaires and feckless traders, brutish exploiters and enslavers.
- 2019, Rachel Barney, “Becoming Bad: Aristotle on Vice and Moral Habituation”, in Victor Caston, editor, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, volume LVII, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 275:
- In working out Aristotle’s view, it may help to keep in mind some of its rivals. We have a rich cultural gallery of competing candidates for the titles bad, vicious, evil, worst. There is the pursuer of disvalue as such, like Hannibal Lecter or Milton’s Satan; the wanton or brutish slave to low desires; the Dostoevskeian outlaw, committer of some unforgiveable crime; and the amoral egoist or sociopath who greets all moral considerations with a shrug.
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[edit]Of, or in the manner of a brute — see also brute
Bestial; lacking human sensibility
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Further reading
[edit]- “brutish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “brutish”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “brutish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.