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brute
  1. (now archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. [from 17th c.]
  2. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. [from 17th c.]
  3. (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Everything showed us that this brute of a tyrant and tyrant of brutes wishes to keep his savage empire in a state of closeness and insularity.”
      “What I remember is that the film starred Will Fyffe, whose big black dog was rather an unreliable brute that was suspected of sheep worrying.”
brutality
  1. The state of being brutal.
  2. A cruel or savage act.
  3. The use of excessive physical force, often in the form of violence.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The images of abuse and brutality he records are horrifyingly familiar.”
      “They did their work well and acquired the fearsome reputation of brutality and violence.”
      “The narratives repeat images of humiliation, brutality, and the sheer randomness of tragedy among people who have few allies and fewer options.”
brutalism
  1. Brutal, violent behaviour; savagery.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Brutalism.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It is possible in Bacon for such tenderness to exist alongside violence and brutalism.”
      “There was never a chance that Sunday's final would degenerate into that sort of brutalism.”
      “Recent research at St Andrews University, revisited the Stanford work and disproved the idea of automatic brutalism.”
brutalization
  1. (uncountable) The act or process of making brutal
  2. An instance of being brutalized.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Clashes among armed factions, with the accompanying brutalization of the populace, have heightened the climate of fear.”
      “Nine children and three women told similar stories of enslavement and brutalization, including rape.”
      “During the protest I witnessed police brutalization of homeless persons, especially around panhandling and sleeping outside.”
brutalness
  1. The state, quality, or condition of being brutal; brutality
brutalitarian
brutalisation
  1. Alternative form of brutalization
brutism
  1. Behaviour or action characteristic of a brute.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We were also reacting against the pyrotechnics of avant-garde theater and the brutism of performance art.”
brutalist
  1. Someone that follows brutalism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He agrees that, aside from their occasional beauty, there is also a compelling, authoritarian power in these brutalist buildings.”
      “Billboards advertising assorted Americana jostle for position with US-style shopping malls and brash, brutalist hotels.”
      “Built in the late Seventies, when the Troubles were at their most incendiary, it casts more than a nod to the brutalist school of architecture.”
brutishness
  1. the characteristic of being brutish
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They despair of the moral decline and the ugly brutishness that characterise much of urban Britain.”
      “This 1897 story harrowingly captures the nastiness, brutishness, and shortness of life in a village of the time.”
      “My son would like to join the army, but he is understandably concerned about being exposed to such brutishness.”
bruteness
  1. The state or quality of being brute.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But it is the bruteness not the fuzziness that does the philosophical work.”
      “But as Devitt points out, there is a more subtle way to appeal to bruteness here, and if Quinean nominalists make use of this, they can block the One Over Many argument.”
      “This and the next subsection consider non-metaphysical replies to the bruteness challenge that can potentially be deployed by a variety of ethical realists, including non-naturalists.”
brutalitarians
  1. plural of brutalitarian
brutalisations
  1. plural of brutalisation
brutalizations
brutishnesses
brutalisms
brutalists
  1. plural of brutalist
brutalities
  1. plural of brutality
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  3. Examples:
    1. “No continent, to our great shame, can claim exemption from such brutalities.”
      “This corps was never involved in the brutalities associated with other native police.”
      “As he tries to find out what happened, he is sucked into a world of gunmen and no-go garrisons, brutalities and betrayals.”
brutisms
brutes
  1. plural of brute
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The early humanoids traditionally characterised as ape-like brutes were deeply emotional beings with high-pitched voices.”
      “Now some brutes force a man from Cyrene out of the crowd gathering to bear the cross of the Nazarene.”
      “He is baited and mocked in South Boston, Little Italy, and wherever papist brutes foregather.”
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