English

Adverb

brutally ‎(comparative more brutally, superlative most brutally)

1. In a brutal manner; viciously, barbarically.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

   • 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France

     England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.

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