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.
        
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 -- {Brutish*ly}, adv. --
        {Brutish*ness}, n.
        
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