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brute
has definitions from the field of zoology
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[ noun ] a cruelly rapacious person
Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)What more could be asked for a Trial intended to warn the world against anti-Semitism than this opportunity to expose the exact link between the respectable anti-Semite and the concentration-camp brute ? |
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[ adjective ] resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
Examples "beastly desires" "a bestial nature" "brute force" "a dull and brutish man" "bestial treatment of prisoners" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)The already faded pastel charms of the naive music itself vanish entirely in Fistoulari 's melodramatic contrasts between ultra vehement brute power and chilly , if suave , sentimentality . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (zoology) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
Synonyms Related terms life_form game female young male larva giant adult prey mate pet survivor domestic_animal captive mutant racer dead_animal vermin fictional_animal range_animal acrodont pleurodont insectivore molter chordate stayer scavenger creepy-crawly marine_animal ectotherm peeper critter zooplankton omnivore invertebrate metazoan herbivore predator work_animal varmint thoroughbred biped migrator stunt embryo darter Animalia head face animal_tissue body side adult microorganism trap free-swimming wart unregistered clipped humaneness herding registered nose diet actinomycete domesticate trailing sitter transmitter schistosome_dermatitis hispid sacrifice flesh-eating domesticate crested crop plant-eating epizootic insectivorous bone-covered half-blooded stander drench all-devouring bone animalize |
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