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View definitions for brute

brute

adjective as in very strong; animal-like

noun as in barbarian

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Example Sentences

The former minister said that the Dyson prototype ultimately "did not get through testing" and "whenever confronted with brute facts about safety or otherwise, I would always accept them."

From BBC

Brooks hadn’t offered the town’s hippest brute a part in his black-and-white spoof.

In an aptly titled Associated Press news story “Trump moves with light speed and brute force in shaking the core of what America has been”, Calvin Woodward recounts the last six weeks:

From Salon

A heaving red brute froths and seethes behind a podium marked with the Presidential seal before tearing through the Rose Garden and leaving a swath of wreckage through the White House.

Could there be a more emphatic conflation of symbolic maleness and brute force?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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