brute
/bɹut/ adjective C1- Without reason or intelligence (of animals). · a brute beast
- Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
- Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. · the brute earth; the brute powers of nature
- Crude, unpolished.
- Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature. · I got the door open through brute force.
- Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason. · brute violence
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This incident gives zest to our investigation, however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her.
“The brute!
The brute!” I cried with clenched hands.
Where is this brute of a hound which drove him to his death?
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