Meanings (ES + gloss)
bestia
An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
they laid before them how unbecoming it was the Dignity of such sublime Creatures to be sollicitous about gratifying those Appetites, which they had in common with Brutes, and at t…
‘That animal has a charmed life,’ he said; ‘but you can say this only of brutes in this country. No man - you apprehend me? - no man here bears a charmed life.’
bruto • bucéfalo
A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted.
One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."
She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe,…
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