brutishness

  • 81brutality — [n] cruel treatment atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, choke hold*, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, grossness, inhumanity, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, savagery, third degree*, unfeelingness, viciousness; concepts… …

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  • 82cruelty — [n] brutality, harshness animality, barbarism, barbarity, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, coarseness, coldness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, hard heartedness, heartlessness, inhumanity,… …

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  • 83inhumanity — [n] lack of compassion atrocity, barbarism, bloodthirstiness, brutality, brutishness, callousness, cold bloodedness, cruelty, ferocity, heartlessness, maliciousness, ruthlessness, savagery, viciousness, violence; concepts 29,645 …

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  • 84brutish — [bro͞ot′ish] adj. of or like a brute; savage, gross, stupid, sensual, irrational, etc. brutishly adv. brutishness n …

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  • 85brute — n. & adj. n. 1 a a brutal or violent person or animal. b colloq. an unpleasant person. 2 an animal as opposed to a human being. adj. 1 not possessing the capacity to reason. 2 a animal like, cruel. b stupid, sensual. 3 unthinking, merely material …

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