Brutish and Native

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Brutish adjective - Having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal.

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Native and brutish are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Native" instead an adjective "Brutish".

Nearby Words: brutal, brute

Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.

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Brutish and native are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brutish" instead an adjective "Native".

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

William Henry Harrison is a brutish, power-hungry warlord with a militant hatred of Native Americans, and he tries to turn the fort that he commands into his own private fortress.

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Yet some authors portray Native Americans as backward, childlike people who all talk like Tonto, and others portray them all as a nature-bonded Magical Native American stereotype who are mercilessly slaughtered by the brutish white man.

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