nasty, brutish, and short

== English == === Etymology === Mentioned in 1651 in Leviathan by 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. === Adjective === nasty, brutish, and short (idiomatic, somewhat derogatory) Of a hypothetical state of human life, without a government or society, and marked by constant fear, violence, and insecurity. ==== See also ====