brutality
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brutal (ˈbruːtəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | cruel; vicious; savage |
| 2. | extremely honest or coarse in speech or manner |
| 3. | harsh; severe; extreme: brutal cold |
| bru'tality | |
| —n | |
| 'brutally | |
| —adv | |
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Brutality
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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Example sentences
It is about raising awareness towards our tuition hikes and police brutality.
They are unlikely to offer aid to a regime with such a record of brutality and contempt for its people.
But this fall the casual brutality of the schoolyard seems particularly bitter.
Instead, there's the grinding brutality of quasi-medieval life.
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