brute
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- n a cruelly rapacious person
- n a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- s resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
brute force
- Stanley Kowalski, for example, may be a brute.
- In one of her many sexual debates with Clark Gable's Rhett Butler, Scarlett's dialogue says 'No no', but her dress says 'Come here, you great brute!'.
- The boxer, a good-natured brute of a dog, was bred in central Europe in the 15th Century to whip its weight in wild boars.