brutish
adjUK /ˈbɹuːt.ɪʃ/
Etymology From brute + -ish.
1
Of, or in the manner of a brute.
2
Bestial; lacking human sensibility.
- And then came others, possessing weaponry and a sophisticated support before which tribes in dense jungles had no recourse: European concessionaires and feckless traders, brutish exploiters and enslavers.2009 March 30, Edward Rothstein, “Casting a Sliver of Light on the Heart of Darkness”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2020:
- In working out Aristotle’s view, it may help to keep in mind some of its rivals. We have a rich cultural gallery of competing candidates for the titles bad, vicious, evil, worst. There is the pursuer of disvalue as such, like Hannibal Lecter or Milton’s Satan; the wanton or brutish slave to low desires; the Dostoevskeian outlaw, committer of some unforgiveable crime; and the amoral egoist or sociopath who greets all moral considerations with a shrug.2019, Rachel Barney, “Becoming Bad: Aristotle on Vice and Moral Habituation”, in Victor Caston, editor, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, volume LVII, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 275:
- Derived terms
- brutishly, brutishness, nasty, brutish, and short, unbrutish