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(adj) barbarous, cruel, vicious, savage, roughshod, fell
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
a barbarous crime; brutal beatings; cruel tortures; Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks; a savage slap; vicious kicks
(adj) beastly, bestial, brute, brutish
resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
beastly desires; a bestial nature; brute force; a dull and brutish man; bestial treatment of prisoners
(adj) unrelenting
harsh
the brutal summer sun; a brutal winter