Word Finder - brutal

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Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel

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Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.

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Harsh; unrelenting

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Disagreeably precise or penetrating

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In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.

Who is that intemperate and brutal man whom we would redeem?

He planned brutal practical jokes, in which blows had always a share.

To succeed, it was essential that the fellah should be taught that discipline might be strict without being oppressive, that pay and rations would be fairly distributed, that brutal usage by superiors would be checked, that complaints would be thoroughly investigated, and impartial justice meted out to soldiers of all ranks.

He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his lips and met them with her own.

Didn't he know that his brutal assault proved nothing?

His sympathetic nature was influenced by indignation against the brutal methods adopted towards prisoners, especially political prisoners, and by the stern measures which the government of the tsar felt compelled to adopt in order to repress the revolutionary movement.

In his private character Shane O'Neill was a brutal, uneducated savage.

It was a brutal realization, one that left her devastated but also guiltier than ever.

They behaved in the most high-handed, brutal and truculent manner.

Isac was the first to slam an axe into Darian's body, his brutal strikes falling over and over.

With much that was sordid and brutal in his character George combined a highly cultivated literary taste, and in the course of his chequered career he had found the means of collecting a splendid library, which Julian ordered to be conveyed to Antioch for his own use.

Mine is a very brutal world, he said.

She was expecting some sort of alien monster to inhabit the brutal planet.

His father died when he was three, his mother when he was only seven, and he grew up in a brutal and degrading environment where he learnt to hold human life and human dignity in contempt.

Xander fluttered kisses over her face, as gentle with her as he was brutal with the Others she watched him kill.

It was broken by the two last Stuart kings, who employed methods the most brutal and repulsive for the crushing of consciences trained in the theocratic ideas of Knox and Melville.

Everyone knows the world of fashion is purely judgmental and brutal.

Her world was brutal.

But admiration of his talents must not blind us to his moral worthlessness, nor is it right to cast the blame for his excesses on the brutal and vicious society in which he lived.

The visions in her head were dark and brutal, the memories of a man enslaved by the sadistic Black God for thousands of years.

It's brutal, even barbaric, yet one can't help watching it with some sort of appreciative grin.

The water was hot and the water pressure brutal.

A massacre of a most brutal character, in which Turkish soldiers took part, followed; and aroused deep indignation in Europe.

He resisted the urge to reach out to her as he did Sofi when the Oracle cried after a particularly brutal session with Darian's bad memories.

He didn't realize how much until he actually needed their brutal take on reality to ground him.

His brutal strength and otherworldly agility made the futile attempts of the vamps look like they were swatting flies instead of fighting for their lives.

Past-Death was going to be brutal to deal with, if Deidre ever got out of Hell.

She launched into the melee, fighting her way towards the two with brutal ferocity borne of emotion.

The faint of heart should be prepared for the brutal, barbaric beatings that Christ endures.

Les Dennis, Mike McShane and Jeremy Edwards star in this hilariously brutal comedy examining our infatuation with fame... .

In the United States, they were pretty brutal about the movie, actually.

It isn't long, however, before Esther begins carving new and increasingly brutal wounds into her body.

Society did not become more brutal in the developed democratic nations.

This was the sort of story the Germans wished to be true and they always swallowed it, even those who looked most brutal.

However, it does get more brutal, especially on the live offensives.

I wonder, a little disturbed, whether a brutal police crackdown on hustlers is responsible.

In fact they would still be living under a brutal tyrant.

She was alone and segregated, partly because she was new, and partly because an Oracle's soul-reading job was brutal enough that most Oracles—including his mother—killed themselves soon after their full powers manifested within them.

The brutal reality was that he'd double-bound her to ensure he didn't lose – and not because any part of him was capable of affection.

He was a brutal disciplinarian with no more mercy for his demons than he showed humans who lost deals.

While he possessed knowledge of a brutal attack, if the victim, Lydia, allowed it to happen as she said, wasn't she culpable in some convoluted way for the results of her entrapment?

From about that date his method becomes much broader - one might almost say more brutal - and his color more vivid and daring.

At her trial Mark Smeaton was the only man to speak against her and this was following brutal torture.

Millions of guns from all over the world ended up in Mozambique during its brutal civil war.

They preach against the weakness of democracy and follow a brutal macho military creed.

Given the brutal and gratuitous cruelty observed at Bassatin by CIWF and Animals Australia, this has not been effective.

In Yugoslavia and Iraq the problem has been brutal and selfish leadership rather than ethnic or economic desperation.

No more excuse for Prescott to let his crony corporate windfarm developers impose their brutal monstrosities upon local communities... .

The man was a brutal dictator who committed terrible crimes against his people.

Myanmar is ruled with an iron fist by a brutal military dictatorship, which has renamed the country Myanmar.