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brutal

• (s) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  • a barbarous crime
  • brutal beatings
  • cruel tortures
  • Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
  • a savage slap
  • vicious kicks
  barbarous, cruel, fell, savage, vicious, roughshod,
• (s) harsh
  • the brutal summer sun
  • a brutal winter
  unrelenting,
• (s) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
  • beastly desires
  • a bestial nature
  • brute force
  • a dull and brutish man
  • bestial treatment of prisoners
  bestial, brute, brutish, beastly,
• (s) disagreeably direct and precise
  • he spoke with brutal honesty

Synonyms

barbarous cruel fell savage vicious roughshod unrelenting bestial brute brutish beastly

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