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[ UK /bɹˈuːt/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹut/ ]
NOUN
  1. a cruelly rapacious person
  2. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
ADJECTIVE
  1. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
    a dull and brutish man
    a bestial nature
    bestial treatment of prisoners
    brute force
    beastly desires

How To Use brute In A Sentence

  • And the moral murder of my child is to be my punishment for daring to turn a deaf ear to the indign passion of a brute! The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
  • The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman's exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.
  • The tusky but soft-hearted little brute kept nodding his round, sparsely covered head while he listened, exuding a smell of lavender-water, cigars, and gutta-percha. The Freelands
  • History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.
  • Unlike the hard martial arts, Tai chi is characterized by soft, slow, flowing movements that emphasize force, rather than brute strength.
  • His whole appearance at such times excited disgust in that lady, and she would leave his presence as soon as possible, using even the term brute to express her disgust; Matthias too, would attempt to rouse him on such occasions, to a sense of impropriety, by exclaiming, "Why, Elijah! what are you saying, what are you about?" while other persons would remove his hand, and hold him. Fanaticism; Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. A Reply to W. L. Stone, with the Descriptive Portraits of
  • You're a nasty little brute!
  • In 1966 Ford introduced its first Bronco model, a bare-bones brute that has achieved collector status.
  • The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct. 
  • How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation,' with an ugly emphasis on _brute_ .... This Simian World
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