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brutal Adjective

— If something or someone is brutal, it is violent or cruel. She killed her victims in a brutal way.

brutal

— adjective (= barbarous, cruel, roughshod, savage, vicious) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering a barbarous crime brutal beatings cruel tortures Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks a savage slap vicious kicks — adjective harsh the brutal summer sun a brutal winter — adjective disagreeably direct and precise he spoke with brutal honesty — adjective (= beastly, bestial, brute, brutish) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility beastly desires a bestial nature brute force a dull and brutish man bestial treatment of prisoners

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Topics brutal topics

What do people use brutal to talk about?

Social behavior Conflict Fight

Violent

What words describe someone who is violent?

violent brutal aggressive vicious savage barbarous bloodthirsty barbaric
What words describe something someone does that is violent?

violent violently vicious brutal savage ferocious rough bloody forcible stormy barbarous

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Simple sentences

An overwhelming majority voted to abolish the brutal punishment.

Most serial killers have experienced brutal childhoods, but very few people who experienced brutal childhoods later become serial killers.

Today, as Americans, we grieve the brutal murder -- a horrific massacre -- of dozens of innocent people. We pray for their families, who are grasping for answers with broken hearts.

Movie subtitles

Life was even nastier, more brutal and shorter in France.

Yeah, sorry. Uh, work's. Work's been brutal.

But brutal and undignified.

Brutal, yet efficient.

Bernard is quite capable of such a crime and his past conduct and brutal nature leave him open to suspicion.

It's brutal!

The state disgraced in the eyes of the world by this brutal outburst of lust for vengeance.

Brutal, disgusting.

Carlos plays a brutal hand.

You're too brutal.

And you're not brutal enough.

I'd say we weren't as brutal as all that, you know.

He's not brutal like..

This is a man's world, a brutal world.

Uh, work's. Work's been brutal.

Okay, this is brutal.

You're brutal.

He's not brutal like.

Though the apparent method of the crime was brutal, I'm convinced that the crime itself was intelligently planned.

Brutal frankness, if you insist.

Mrs. Crosbie, I know it sounds brutal, but I'm afraid it's my duty.

Not that Charlie was ever brutal. He just did brutal things.

I found it a bit too brutal.

Was he brutal to you?

We're not brutal, we're not monsters.

It's been brutal not seeing you.

Carlos plays a brutal hand. A tactical error.

You think I am a cold man. Cold and brutal.

Life is filthy and brutal. I know what poverty is, and it scares me.

One crazy woman, one brutal man and a simpleton.

I despise that brutal, cynical form of marriage.

News and current affairs

But, when it comes to standards - such as those governing safety, health, and the environment - the market-access requirements are brutal and binary: either you meet the established standard or you do not sell.

Does diversity authorize such brutal deaths and senseless violence against women simply because some supposedly traditional practice allows them to be married before their bodies are ready and denies them health care when they give birth?

NEW YORK - The brutal murder of 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut, shakes us to the core as individuals and requires a response as citizens.

Brutal dictators go unpunished because their interests are protected by large powers with stakes in their natural resources.

Yet a majority of the Chinese population seems to support its' government's policies, including its brutal suppression of minorities and denial of democratic freedoms.

Perhaps, after the first brutal generation of democratic rule, a slightly more moral society will arise and the Pope's words will be recalled from a distance.

With the brutal conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and elsewhere constantly in the news, many people would probably say war.

Ferguson's argument amounts to that of a brutal disciplinarian who claims vindication for his methods by pointing out that the victim is still alive.

If Bulgaria sends this man back to Turkmenistan - where he faces certain torture and the threat of a brutal death - our claim to be part of a democratic, rights-respecting Europe will ring hollow.

Other qualified people from emerging markets have been reluctant to put their hats into the ring - it is a brutal job, with a travel schedule that requires physical stamina to match wisdom and experience.

But it is to be hoped that the West's legal systems will provide an alternative recourse, one that will not only partially redress past injustices, but provide incentives for corporations to think twice before profiting from brutal regimes in the future.

They can help to expose the truth about life in Daesh - that it is brutal, corrupt, and prone to internal purges - in several ways, including by drawing attention to defections.

The gullible Sancho Panza was meant to adopt the revolution's deceptive dogma as entitlement to wage a brutal war against all.

As their economies have expanded, Asian countries have gained the confidence to construct and exalt a new past, in which they either downplay their own aggressions or highlight their steadfastness in the face of brutal victimization.

It would be self-defeating, or worse, to try to promote morality through brutal coercion.

I have just finished Alexievich's latest dreadful masterpiece, Secondhand Time, a brutal account of the chaotic Russian capitalism of the 1990s.

But the military prevented its victory by canceling the second round, triggering a brutal eight-year civil war in which an estimated 200,000 people died.

His People's Action Party, though far less brutal than the Chinese Communist Party, has ruled over a de facto one-party state.

Myanmar's generals deserve to be condemned for their brutal crackdown on civilian protestors and Buddhist monks.

Unlike the first group, they would be ready to accept the release of one Palestinian prisoner - even if he were responsible for the most brutal terrorist attack - but not a thousand of them.

More than seven months on from this brutal suppression, political activists continue to be imprisoned and tortured.

The Brotherhood's offshoot, the Palestinian movement Hamas, has established in the Gaza Strip a brutal, intolerant dictatorship.

In northern Uganda, ICC charges against leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army have helped bring an end to years of brutal fighting, and marginalized the LRA's chief, Joseph Kony.

For the brutal question governments must now face is this: is there an alternative to the Icelandic crash course?

The personal charm of the Dalai Lama, combined with the Himalayan air of superior spiritual wisdom, has promoted a caricature of a mystical, wise, and peace-loving people being crushed by a brutal empire.

Its history has seen many coups, tens of thousands of people missing, a war with Great Britain, bouts of hyperinflation, a brutal economic crisis, default on foreign debt, and its most vulnerable citizens going hungry.

Field Marshal (and SCAF leader) Hussein Tantawy retained his post as Defense Minister, and General Ahmed Gamal al-Din was appointed to head the interior ministry, whose brutal behavior sparked the revolution.

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