mod. excellent; powerful. : Man, what a brutal tune!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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However, brutal honesty is better during situations such as emergency response and planning.
Triage works when it addresses the arbitrariness of war and the brutal nature of war reporting.
Thousands of political prisoners remain in jail, some of them serving sixty-year terms in brutal conditions.
But the persistence of the brutal and dangerous custom, despite an official ban and public-awareness campaigns, is disturbing.
What they share is willingness to use the same brutal tactics to achieve their goals.
She does not want him to forget that a familiar world still exists outside the brutal one he now inhabits.
Lung cancer is a brutal disease, often not caught until it's too late for treatment to do much good.
She had a lumpectomy, followed by a brutal course of radiation and chemotherapy.
With brutal consistency, it stifles free thought and crushes new ideas.
However, at last all the guests had arrived and the usher's brutal monologue perforce came to an end.