adjective
definition
Of, or in the manner of a brute
definition
Bestial; lacking human sensibility
Examples of brutish in a Sentence
He was that way with everyone he encountered, brutish.
Each person took for himself all that he could; man's life was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
Furthermore, I think it's quite brutish for the State to agree with murder.
He 's ruminating on life and how his has been mostly nasty, brutish and short.
Jane was a quiet and studious girl, but even she couldnt hold her tongue when it came to her mothers brutish behavior.
The most acrimonious of all his works is his Defence of Justification by Faith, an answer to what Bunyan calls "the brutish and beastly latitudinarianism" of Edward Fowler, afterwards bishop of Gloucester, an excellent man, but not free from the taint of Pelagianism.
The one is commonly transitory, a sound, a tongue, a dialect merely, almost brutish, and we learn it unconsciously, like the brutes, of our mothers.
Moreover, in the universal unrest and oversetting of all authority, Christianity itself was in danger of perishing, not only as the result of the cultured paganism of the Renaissance, but also through the brutish ignorance of the common folk, deprived now of their traditional religious restraints.
In only two points can Rabelais be said to be definitely polemic. He certainly hated the monkish system in the debased form in which it existed in his time; he as certainly hated the brutish ignorance into which the earlier systems of education had suffered too many of their teachers and scholars to drop. At these two things he was never tired of striking, but elsewhere, even in the grim satire of the Chats fourres, he is the satirist proper rather than the reformer.
From G's to Gents is an elimination-style reality show that focuses on giving these hardened, self-absorbed, or brutish men a second chance to clean up their act.