brutish

comparative more brutish · superlative most brutish

1. Of, or in the manner of a brute.
2. Bestial; lacking human sensibility.

   And then came others, possessing weaponry and a sophisticated support before which tribes in dense jungles had no recourse: European concessionaires and feckless traders, brutish exploiters and enslavers.

   2009 March 30, Edward Rothstein, “Casting a Sliver of Light on the Heart of Darkness”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2020

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   In working out Aristotle’s view, it may help to keep in mind some of its rivals. We have a rich cultural gallery of competing candidates for the titles bad, vicious, evil, worst. There is the pursuer of disvalue as such, like Hannibal Lecter or Milton’s Satan; the wanton or brutish slave to low desires; the Dostoevskeian outlaw, committer of some unforgiveable crime; and the amoral egoist or sociopath who greets all moral considerations with a shrug.

   2019, Rachel Barney, “Becoming Bad: Aristotle on Vice and Moral Habituation”, in Victor Caston, editor, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, volume LVII, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 275

   Synonyms: animalistic, beastly, barbaric, wolfish, animalesque, animalian, animalish, animalistic