Brutal
Warlike
Warlike adjective - Feeling or displaying eagerness to fight.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Though not quite as horrific as the Holocaust, it still convinced me that using reason in the face of violence was a foolish gambit, and that humanity was far too brutal and warlike to make coexistence a possibility.
Source: Self Demonstrating / Magneto -
Though not quite as horrific as the Holocaust, it still convinced him that using reason in the face of violence was a foolish gambit, and that humanity was far too brutal and warlike to make coexistence a possibility.Magneto: When I was a child, my people talked while others prepared for war!
Source: Comic Book / Magneto - Spock himself admitted that Vulcan, like Earth, had its warring colonizing period that was considered brutal even by our standards, and that some Vulcans (you might know them as Romulans) still hold to their warlike roots.
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