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brutally

adverb B2
  1. In a brutal manner; viciously, barbarically.
  2. In a direct way that does not attempt to hide, disguise, or mask unpleasantness; directly. · He was not an expert but he was brutally honest by saying he couldn’t help the customer find a solution.
  3. Extremely. (slang)
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You will find very few persons who will go and brutally thrust a knife in the heart of a fellow-creature, or will administer to him, in order to remove him from the surface of the globe on which we move with life and animation, that quantity of arsenic of which we just now talked.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 534 · C1

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