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Synonyms for brutish

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Synonyms for brutish

resembling a beast

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'O judgment though art fled to brutish beasts And men have lost their reason...
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The 'brutish and macho' President Duterte has eroded the rhetoric of compassion in his singular focus of getting rid of the narcotics trade as a way to bring growth and development, according to a Filipino academician.
Born under Brutish colonial rule, even as a child she was aware of the injustice meted out to her as an African and a girl.
Filmed largely in the UK, it's bursting with patriotic fervour and Daniel Craig's brutish charisma.
Charlie's efforts to protect the innocent and resist injustice put him on a collision course with a wealthy land-grabber and his brutish henchmen, in this enthralling, high-stakes adventure!
The four brutish bouncers portray over 20 different characters as we are invited for a night out on the town.
So come and meet the brutish bouncers, the boys on the town, four girls out to have fun, the Hooray Henrys, the smooth talking DJ all set against the tatty, giltzy glamour, flashing lights and pulsating beat of the sweaty dance floor.
While such an brutish, violent individual may find it easy enough to live with the fact that the fire he set killed six of his children, it is quite wrong to blame the welfare state for his wretched and horrid behaviour.
These are unexamined lives, ugly, brutish and short, and they require a deeper analysis than mere description.
And just a reminder that the cause of riots was not social deprivation, but Liverpool's policing policy under that brutish clown of a chief constable, Kenneth Oxford.
The other models that Audi plans to display at the Auto Expo include the Audi A3 E-Tron concept (featuring a 211bhp 1.4-litre TFSI motor coupled with a 27bhp electric motor) and V10 R8 Spyder, Audi S6 coupe and the brutish RS5 models.
Resident Richard Higham said: 'The proposal is brutish in size and design.
Majority is set on a young middle-class man who rebels against his father's brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of an ethnic minority.