MEANING
Crude, harsh, or cruel in a way that shows little thought or sympathy.
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- brutish behaviour
- brutish treatment
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His brutish treatment of the servants made the house itself seem hostile.
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- brutish
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Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Comparative more brutish; superlative most brutish when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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