brutish

My ex-wife is a nasty, brutish, turd of a person.

"Nasty, brutish and short" is the Hobbes quote about the state of nature.

"It's a shame that companies doing some useful things have to encourage a culture of brutish behavior.

Were you intending to imply that 12 or more years of freely licensed software constitutes "nasty, brutish, and short"?

Before the GPL life was nasty, brutish and short.... never mind that GNU was around for 6 years, and BSD was around for 12 years before the GPL was published.

It appeared that it was an uneducated punk trying to impress a love interest through the only brutish way he knows: violence.

The previous generation of tech giants seem really quite nasty and brutish in comparison.

In children's movies, boys have become brutish, bullying antagonists to the protagonist princess more often than not.

Unchecked capitalism without a social safety net is a savage and brutish failure

Here is a little teaser from WP:Thomas Hobbes famously said that in a "state of nature" human life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".

Note to those of you who have, plan to, or might possibly have any sort of agenda about anything in your lives:Raw, brutish racism/culturalism doesn't help your message.

Extremely roughly: Locke was an idealist of liberty; Hobbes rationalized the social contract by pointing out that people are bastards and that life without it is nasty, brutish, poor, and short.

I read a narrative once of someone who was watching World War I brew, describing it as a non-event that would not transpire because he could not imagine people with top hats engaging in the brutish behaviors of their predecessors.

I can't buy into Assange's Manichean view of government, given the pre-governmental state of society as war of all against all, qua Hobbes: "In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently, not culture of the earth, no navigation, nor the use of commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, 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.