brutishly r in an inhumane manner Usage(s) Brave, boyish Janet Rawley and her brutishly neurasthenic spouse, Jack, are about to plunge into African shrubbery on a safari for game and gold. Precisely because the Tate murders were so brutishly irrational, Hollywood was seized by fear. Their work is brutishly hard and ill paid, and death by drowning is a probable price of carelessness. Synonym(s) bestially in a beastly manner