BRUTAL

[adjective] - cruel, violent and completely without human feelingsHe had been a brutal dictator and had many enemies.He had presided over a brutal regime in which thousands of people had 'disappeared' in mysterious circumstances.She was taken to a small cell where she was subjected to a brutal beating.He was imprisoned in 1945 for the brutal murder of a 12-year old school girl.Brutal can also mean unpleasantly truthful.She spoke with brutal honesty - I was too old for the job.How could I tell him the brutal truth - that I had stopped loving him and that's why I had left him.