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brutally (comparative more brutally, superlative most brutally)

In a brutal manner; viciously, barbarically.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
  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: Ure Smith, published 1965, 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.
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.

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 #* {{quote-book|1=en|year=1930|author=Norman Lindsay|authorlink=Norman Lindsay|title=Redheap|publisher=Ure Smith|location=Sydney|year_published=1965|page=134|passage="You sit there," said Henry '''brutally'''.}}
 #* {{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.}}
-# In a [[direct]] way that does not attempt to disguise or mask unpleasantness; [[directly]].
+# In a [[direct]] way that does not attempt to hide, disguise or mask unpleasantness; [[directly]].
-#: ''being '''brutally''' honest''
+#: ''He was not an expert but he was '''brutally''' honest by saying he couldn’t help the customer find a solution.''
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