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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
brutish
    adj 1: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
           "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a
           dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
           [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish,
           brutal]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Brutish \Bru"tish\, a.
   Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel,
   gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
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         O, let all provocation
         Take every brutish shape it can devise.  --Leigh Hunt.
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         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.
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   Syn: Insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal;
        barbarous; inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual;
        bestial.
        [1913 Webster] -- Bru"tish*ly, adv. --
        Bru"tish*ness, n.
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