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