Definition of "brutishness" [brutishness]

• The characteristic of being brutish. (noun)

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• "Not the cuteness exactly, but people generally stumble when trying to make female versions of the ugly humanoids; a certain kind of brutishness fits much more neatly into people's idealized male than idealized female."
• "The American business magazine decried the bear's "brutishness" and its threat to an interdependent world; labeled Russia "a gangster state" ruled by a "kleptocracy.""
• "American war talk is this utterly weird mixture of anger and self-pity and bragging and fear and whining and brutishness."