Debauched vs Brutish - What's the difference?

Debauched is a related term of brutish.

As adjectives the difference between debauched and brutish

is that debauched is indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent while brutish is of, or in the manner of a brute.

As a verb debauched

is (debauch).

debauched

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.

Synonyms

* degenerate * degraded * dissipated * dissolute * fast * libertine * licentious * profligate * riotous

Derived terms

* debauchedly * debauchedness * debauchery

Verb

(head)

(debauch)

brutish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of, or in the manner of a brute

Bestial; lacking human sensibility

Quotations

* 1651 , (Thomas Hobbes), *: No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish , and short. * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy *: The haggard despair of Cotton-factory, Coal-mine operatives, Farm-labourers, in these days, is painful to behold; but not so painful, hideous to the inner sense, as the brutish god-forgetting Profit-and-Loss Philosophy, and Life-theory, which we hear jangled on all hands of us […] * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

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