adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
1. In a brutish manner; irrationally, sensually.
1579. Fulke, Refut. Rastel, 749. He reasoneth brutishly with putting such cases.
1674. J. B[rian], Harvest Home, III. 11. Brutishly sottish, and stupidly irrational.
1720. De Foe, Capt. Singleton, i. (1840), 8. They were so brutishly wicked.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., X. 1701. Why not live brutishly, obey my law?
2. With brutish indifference to the feelings; coarsely, boorishly, savagely, brutally.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Mastiner … to reuile one and vse him mastife like, brutishly, foulye.
1688. Sir J. Knatchbull, Diary, in N. & Q., III. VI. 3. They brutishly answered, Damn you … how will you endure hell-fire?
a. 1734. North, Lives (1826), II. 129. Sitting there to hear his decrees most brutishly and effrontrously arraigned, &c.
1807. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. II. vi. 310. Even Iona had orchards … till the Vikingr brutishly ruined all.
1825. Ld. Cockburn, Mem., iii. 174. A very curious edifice … was brutishly obliterated without one public murmur.
