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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.
-- Bru*tish*ly, adv. -- Bru*tish*ness, n.
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brutishly
adv : in an inhumane manner; "she treated her husband bestially"
[syn: bestially, in a beastly manner]