Brutish

II. vii.66 (269,8) [As sensual as the brutish sting] Though the _brutish sting_ is capable of a sense not inconvenient in this passage, yet as it is a harsh and unusual mode of speech, I should read the ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

You were described as a brutish creature, lacking the simplest of manners. ❋ Charlene Cross (1994)

It was an awful thought to me, ever present on those Sundays, and haunting me at other times; that men, women and children were living in brutish degradation, and that as they died others would take their place. ❋ Unknown (1943)

The qwen pictures I find interesting because I am so large, because I have been called brutish, threatening, dominating, a danger, physcially incapable of knowing my own strength. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2009)

This among the sons of men, the worms of the earth, would be called a brutish affection. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

The "mouth" and "eyes" are those of a man, while the symbol is otherwise brutish, that is, it will assume man's true dignity, namely, wear the guise of the kingdom of God (which comes as the "Son of man" from above), while it is really bestial, namely, severed from God. ❋ Unknown (1871)

After incidents of what some called brutish Chinese behavior toward foreign fishing vessels, the Obama administration, determined to show that the U.S. is still a major Pacific power, has been conducting naval maneuvers with countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines. ❋ Unknown (2011)

From blatantly racist films such as W.D. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" to the tasteless buffoonery of MGM's "Soul Plane" whether intentionally mean-spirited or ignorantly self-inflicted, the message of the so-called brutish or oversexed Black male has been disseminated throughout America and the world.

But flagrant fabrications such as "Obama liking Reagan's policies" hurts not only Obama in terms of voters who may believe it, and Hillary, for those who don't, but it hurts the Democrats because it represents the kind of brutish, deceptive politics Americans now routinely hate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It makes a kind of brutish sense if you don't think about it too hard. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So far, however, these records have been tapped primarily to understand the origins of male labor migrancy and its impact on the rural economy, and there has been little effort to problematize the testimony of men and women who were preoccupied, on the one hand, with distinguishing themselves from their "brutish" Portuguese colleagues and, on the other hand, with proving their determination to overcome Africans '"moral degeneracy" and spiritual "backwardness." ❋ Unknown (2005)

News is that those reports out of New Orleans during the disaster—you know the ones, rapes of children, indiscriminate killings, the "brutish" populace, the omnipresent "savagery," Blacks, in short, reverting to type—are bogus. ❋ Unknown (2005)

For we have seen before, when they were admonished by their father, how far they were from that sorrow which is the commencement of true repentance; and it may be believed that afterwards they became stupefied more and more, with a kind of brutish torpor, in their wickedness; or at least, that they had not been seriously affected with bitter grief for their sin. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

Is not our understanding "brutish" in the contemplation of such things, and is as if it were not? ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

As then Vice when such as belongs to human nature is called Vice simply, while the other is so called with the addition of "brutish" or "morbid," but not simply Vice, so manifestly there is Brutish and Morbid ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle (N/A)

Was rhyme a "brutish" form of verse? and, if so, was its place to be taken by the alliterative rhythm, so dear to the older poets, or by an importation of classical metres, such as was attempted by Sidney and Spenser, and enforced by the unwearied lectures of Harvey and of Webbe? ❋ Various (N/A)

There are instances of debauched and shameless old age which, deficient in vital resources, strives to supply their place by fictitious excitement; a kind of brutish lasciviousness, that is ever the more cruelly punished by nature, from the fact that the immediately-ensuing debility is in direct proportion to the forced stimulation which has preceded it. ❋ Unknown (1877)

Man becomes "brutish" when he severs himself from God, the archetype and true ideal, in whose image he was first made, which ideal is realized by the man Christ Jesus. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Under the head of unconscious absurdities may be classed what are commonly called "bulls," implying like the French "_bêtise_" so great a deficiency of observation as to approach a kind of brutish stupidity only worthy of the lower animals. ❋ Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange (1873)