brutal

brutal
01. The [brutal] attack on the young man left him with a broken jaw and two black eyes.
02. The hockey game was really [brutal] last night, with lots of fights and penalties.
03. The police were charged with [brutality] after a man was nearly beaten to death while in custody.
04. The old man treated his dog [brutally], kicking it and punching it when it didn't obey him.
05. The dog was a huge [brute] with terrible fangs and muscles of steel.
06. Nathan is a [brutish] looking guy - big, muscular and unshaven.
07. The victim was [brutally] murdered in his home with a kitchen knife, by two strangers.
08. George Bancroft once said that the exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth, and [brute] force.
09. James Garfield once said that ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a [brutality].
10. My grandfather was totally [brutalized] by his experiences in the war, and never wanted to talk about it.
11. President Eisenhower once said, "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its [brutality], its futility, its stupidity."
12. With the help of his [brutal] police force, the former President of Haiti was able to keep the Haitian people in a constant state of terror.
13. Getting dumped by the woman he loved was a [brutal] blow to his ego.
14. The [brutal] rule of Josef Stalin strengthened Russian dominance of the U.S.S.R. at a cost of tens of millions of lives.
15. Sathya Sai Baba once stated that human society minus God is equal to a forest of [brutes].

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