BRUTALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brutally mean? 

• BRUTALLY (adverb)
  The adverb BRUTALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a vicious manner

  Familiarity information: BRUTALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRUTALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a vicious manner

Synonyms:

brutally; savagely; viciously

Context example:

he was viciously attacked

 Context examples 

Her music was a club that she swung brutally upon his head; and though it stunned him and crushed him down, it incited him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a brutal speech, and brutally delivered.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Well?” I said, brutally, for I was not quite pleased with her thanking me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It seems brutally selfish to me to have slept so long, and let him watch all night; but he was quite right.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Two of his guards caught him by the wrists and pulled him brutally to the front.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He cowered in the midst of the milky water, as though the vastness were pressing in upon him with overwhelming force, brutally crushing him with its complacent awfulness.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I am not brutally selfish, blindly unjust, or fiendishly ungrateful.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"You've read lots of my stuff," he went on brutally.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“You have eyes, you have seen,” I answered, almost brutally, what of the pain and fear at my own heart.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"You have," I said frankly, but at the same time, as I felt, brutally.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)