brute
/bɹut/ noun C2- A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted. · One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."
- A kind of powerful spotlight.
Plural brutes
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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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