a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. [ 1913 Webster ]
O, let all provocation
Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
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