brutish

Modifies a noun

• beast: Aye, they are beasts that seek to usurp our land, And like to brutish beasts they shall be served.
• behavior: He behaved like a brute because he was rewarded for brutish behavior.
• nature: Perhaps there is none but has cause for shame on account of the inferior and brutish nature to which he is allied.
• husband: Wringing bird hands and her small skeleton in the doorframe overshadowed by her brutish husband and his fat hands like mallets.
• government: We have warned the brutish governments and British nation many times.
• thing: Auctions are nasty brutish things, individualistic in the extreme.

Modifying Another Word

• quite: Furthermore, I think it's quite brutish for the State to agree with murder.