Definition: 1. Violent and cruel. 2. Causing suffering and pain. 3. Direct and clear about something unpleasant.
Use 'brutal' in a sentence:
1. Jensen is a dangerous man, and can be very brutal and reckless.
2. As one of the most brutal predators, killer whales may not fit the image of a cultured creature.
3. Years of war culminated in nothing less than a brutal razing of the city.
4. In today's real world of business, business competition is brutal.
5. This is the result of a brutal murder.
6. She said I'd see life was brutal.
7. With brutal honesty she told him she did not love him.
8. We have to face the brutal truth.
9. She has to face the brutal reality.
10. To many, football seems like a very brutal sport.
11. This was a brutal and cold-blooded killing.
12. Training is brutal.
13. Steel says working 20 hours a day is "pretty brutal physically."
14. It has been a brutal decade.
15. He took an anguished breath. He had to be brutal and say it.
16. Eddy finds himself plunged into a world of brutal violence.
17. Mr. Varin is new to the car industry, which is itself nearly a year into one of the most brutal crises in its history.
18. Murder is a brutal crime.
19. Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.
20. But bottom trawling is brutal.
21. "He's brutal - brutal," Hardy said.
22. With one brutal wallop, Leticia flattened him.
23. Brutal clashes between squatters and police yesterday ruptured the city's governing coalition.
24. They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.
25. This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid, but an average guy, up against the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries.
26. They lived in happy insulation from brutal facts.
27. He is a brutal murderer.
28. Tough economic conditions call for a brutal focus on costs.
29. Over the last couple of decades the number of people opposed to fox hunting, because they think it is brutal, has risen sharply.
30. The 20th century brought brutal change to some countries.
31. This is a brutal killing.
32. Eddy found himself plunged into a world of brutal violence.
33. This is not war as you learned it. It is brutal work, with no quarter given.
34. The brutal attack on defenseless children and women was strongly criticized.
35. The people have been kept down for years by a brutal regime.
36. The singer Michael Jackson's story, although unusually brutal and extreme, is illumination when considering musical prodigy.
37. Hook itched to do it, but it seemed too brutal.
38. Here the winters are not so brutal as in other parts of the country.
39. It’s brutal, tribal and ignorant.
40. The afternoon sun had been brutal.
41. In other words, it refers to anything that is brutal or learnt, rather than instinctive or natural.
42. But a brutal streak went with it.
43. He eliminated his rivals in a brutal struggle for power.
44. I delivered a verbal protest against their brutal acts.
45. That does not lessen the shock value for a modern reader, even though war in our time is no less savage and no less brutal.
46. The colonists massacred thousands of natives with brutal and callous force.
47. This juxtaposition of brutal reality and lyrical beauty runs through Park's stories.
48. For the Saharan silver ant, crawling from their underground nests into the sun's brutal rays to hunt for food, this is the perfect time to seek lunch.
49. The dip in prices this summer will be brutal.
50. He was the victim of a very brutal murder.
51. He was known for running a brutal extortion racket.
52. Prison conditions have become more brutal.
53. It was refreshing to talk about themselves and their feelings with brutal honesty.
