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===Etymology===
===Etymology===
{{suffix|brutal|ly}}
From {{af|en|brutal|-ly|id2=adverbial}}.


===Adverb===
===Adverb===
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# In a [[brutal]] manner; [[viciously]], [[barbarically]].
# In a [[brutal]] manner; [[viciously]], [[barbarically]].
#* {{RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp|chapter=22|passage=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.}}
#* '''2011''', Tom Fordyce, ''Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France'' [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
#* {{RQ:Lindsay Redheap|page=134|passage="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.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2011|author=Tom Fordyce|title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2022 November 30|author=Paul Bigland|title=Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland|journal=RAIL|issue=971|page=75|text=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.}}
# In a [[direct]] way that does not attempt to hide, disguise or mask unpleasantness; [[directly]].
#: {{ux|en|He was not an expert but he was '''brutally''' honest by saying he couldn’t help the customer find a solution.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2023 March 8|author=Gareth Dennis|title=The Reshaping of things to come...|journal=RAIL|issue=978|page=47|text=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".}}
# {{lb|en|slang}} [[extremely|Extremely]].
#* {{quote-av|en|year=1995|writer=w:Amy Heckerling|title=w:Clueless|role=Cher|actor=Alicia Silverstone|passage=You know, I am so glad I never did it with someone I had lukewarm feelings for. Christian is '''brutally''' hot, and I am going to remember tonight forever.}}


====Translations====
====Translations====
{{trans-top|in a brutal manner}}
{{trans-top|in a brutal manner}}
* Catalan: {{t-|ca|brutalment}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|brutalment}}
* French: {{t+|fr|brutalement}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|raa'asti}}, {{t|fi|brutaalisti}}
* French: {{t+|fr|brutalement}}, {{t+|fr|sauvagement}}
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* German: {{t+|de|brutal}}
* Ido: {{t+|io|brutale}}
* Ido: {{t+|io|brutale}}
* Spanish: {{t-|es|brutalmente}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|brutalmente}}, {{t+|it|barbaramente}}
* Ngazidja Comorian: {{t|zdj|ha ushendzi}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|brutalement}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|brutalnie}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|brutalmente}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|brutalt}}
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Latest revision as of 19:13, 12 November 2024

English

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Etymology

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From brutal +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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brutally (comparative more brutally, superlative most brutally)

  1. In a brutal manner; viciously, barbarically.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 134:
      "You sit there," said Henry brutally.
    • 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France[1]:
      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.
    • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
      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.
  2. In a direct way that does not attempt to hide, disguise or mask unpleasantness; directly.
    He was not an expert but he was brutally honest by saying he couldn’t help the customer find a solution.
    • 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 47:
      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".
  3. (slang) Extremely.
    • 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Cher (Alicia Silverstone):
      You know, I am so glad I never did it with someone I had lukewarm feelings for. Christian is brutally hot, and I am going to remember tonight forever.

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