Brutal and Firm

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Brutal adjective - Difficult to endure.

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Firm and brutal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Firm" instead an adjective "Brutal".

Nearby Words: brutish, brute, brutalize, brutality, brutally

Firm adjective - Not showing weakness or uncertainty.

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Brutal and firm are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brutal" instead an adjective "Firm".

Nearby Words: firming, firmness, firmly, firmed

Screaming Birth Serial Killer: A few, including the Poet, an unidentified murderer who provides a handy alternate suspect for the firm to pin a couple of the more brutal murders they defend on.

Source: Series / The Practice
Disproportionate Retribution: Gibbons and Dawson become firm enemies of Tintin after he called out Gibbons about his racist and brutal behaviour.

Source: Recap / Tintin The Blue Lotus
This was offset by Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl earlier that year, but it's still the prelude to a brutal series of bombs for Disney in 2004 that, along with revolts from shareholders and Pixar, ultimately derailed boss Michael Eisner's career with the firm.

Source: Box Office Bomb / Numbers Through H

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