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BRUTE

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brute I. adjectiv

1. brutal; de brută, animalic.

2. crud, nemilos.

3. inconştient, fără raţiune.

brute II. substantiv

1. animal, dobitoc.

2. (fig.) dobitoc; bestie, fiară, brută.

3. the brute (folosit ca pl.) (fig.) instincte animalice sau de fiară;

◊ it is a brute of a job este o muncă ingrată;

what a brute of a day! ce vreme oribilă!

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I did not turn my head, though I expected every moment a killing blow from the human brute behind me.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

We have other matters before us, other dangers, other fears; and that monster—he has not used his power over the brute world for the only or the last time to-night.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I met Agatha late the last two evenings, and she locks the brute up so as to give me a clear run.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Have not I the most reason to complain, when I see these very Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a vehicle, as if they were brutes, and those the rational creatures?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Bernard Higginbotham was a brute to work her so hard.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

"The ape-men," he cried. My God, what brutes!

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were exceptions among them, no doubt—bullies like Hickman and brutes like Berks; in the main, I say again that they were honest men, brave and enduring to an incredible degree, and a credit to the country which produced them.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I give you fair warning, our suspicions are aroused, and I must and shall see you,” he resumed; “if not by fair means, then by foul—if not of your consent, then by brute force!”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

The Tin Woodman began to use his axe at once, and, just as the two Kalidahs were nearly across, the tree fell with a crash into the gulf, carrying the ugly, snarling brutes with it, and both were dashed to pieces on the sharp rocks at the bottom.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

One was that these brutes could not run as fast as a man in the open.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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