An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
BRUTISHLY
bestially, brutishly, in a beastly manner
(adverb) in an inhumane manner; “she treated her husband bestially”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
brutishly (comparative more brutishly, superlative most brutishly)
In a brutish manner.
Source: Wiktionary
BRUTISH
Bru"tish, a.
Definition: Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.
Syn.
– Insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal; barbarous; inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual; bestial.
– Bru"tish*ly, adv.
– Bru"tish*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DISPIRITEDLY
(adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope; “the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances”
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