He concluded then that labour hadbrutalised the species, and he sought the secret of lifting it up.
They have all been accustomed from their infancy to each other's nakedness; and, as their feelings are brutalised by such a mode of existence, they suffer no scruples to oppose that fearful intercourse which their sensuality suggests.
By this time the whole atmosphere of the place seemed to reek with the suffocating fumes of blood, which acted like intoxication on the brutalised passions of the multitude.
Was he, too, brutalised and branded with the five years of hell?
It was quite a small thing--just the brutalised hardness in a gipsy woman's face!
We have brutalised our bodies with these thoughts.
This again was not because the public was not ready for the good, but because the public taste was brutalised by men who stood between the public and the producers.
More and more as I went among them it seemed to me that the mountains had brutalised those who won from them their snowy treasure.
Professor Lankester suggests that in one or five centuries the difficulty raised by our multiplication "would, if let alone, force itself upon a desperate humanity, brutalised by over-crowding and the struggle for food.
But at present, in her childish ignorance, she's yielding where she should resist, and she'll be brutalised if no one comes to the rescue.
Or removing," Rogozhinsky went on, persistently, "the perverted and brutalised persons that threaten society.
The result was a redundancy of slave population, accustomed to agricultural labour of every kind, and which, having been already brought under the yoke, had become sufficiently brutalised to do the work of oxen.
His manner seemed to change, his eyes brightened, and his brutalised countenance altogether looked less repellent, as he uttered those words.
I don't think she is ungrateful, poor child; but she is being brutalised by companionship with that scoundrel's set.
Julia read and knew, and in an instant she too was clinging to the convict, looking piteously in his scarred, brutalised countenance, with eyes that strove so hard to be full of love, but which gazed through no medium of romance.
With a cry of horror, Julia flung herself between them, her eyes flashing, her dread gone, and in its place, indignant horror sweeping away the last feeling of pity and compunction for the brutalised man to whom she owed her birth.
And Heathcliff, who, brutalised and rude as he was, at least did love and understand her?
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
The clog, the very emblem of the servitude and the squalor of brutalised populations, was changed, on the light feet of this favourite, into the medium of grace.
He was a man whom life had brutalised about half a century earlier.
The poor were brutalised by cruel and indecent punishments, and were far too much under the power of magistrates, some of them vicious and ignorant men, who had summary jurisdiction in a large number of criminal cases.
Such of them as survived the prolonged misery and torture of their early years often grew up more or less stunted and deformed men and women, physically unfit for parentage, morally debased, ignorant, and brutalised by ill-treatment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brutalised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
