Brutish vs Venomous - What's the difference?
brutish | venomous | Related terms |
Full of venom.
Toxic; poisonous.
Noxious; evil.
Malignant; spiteful; hateful.
Producing venom (poison usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging) in glands or accumulating venom from food.
powerful
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As adjectives the difference between brutish and venomous
is that brutish is of, or in the manner of a brute while venomous is full of venom.brutish
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Quotations
* 1651 , (Thomas Hobbes), *: No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish , and short. * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy *: The haggard despair of Cotton-factory, Coal-mine operatives, Farm-labourers, in these days, is painful to behold; but not so painful, hideous to the inner sense, as the brutish god-forgetting Profit-and-Loss Philosophy, and Life-theory, which we hear jangled on all hands of us […] * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Arsenal pressed forward again after half-time but other than a venomous Walcott shot that Howard repelled with a fine one-handed save, the hosts offered little cutting edge.}}