brutally
/bɹˈutəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.59 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a brutal manner; viciously, barbarically.
Example Sentences
- "From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied."
- ""You sit there," said Henry brutally."
- "England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage."
- "And this year, some of the granite facades have a new addition - the blue and yellow of the flag of Ukraine. It's hardly surprising to see the Scots, a nation more attuned to independence than some, showing solidarity with a country brutally invaded by Russia."
- "He was not an expert but he was brutally honest by saying he couldn’t help the customer find a solution."
- "Beeching concludes, rather brutally, that "a high proportion of stopping passenger train services ought to be discontinued as soon as possible... and as soon as procedure permits"."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
more brutally (comparative)
most brutally (superlative)