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adjective

Beastly adj.

Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast. "Beastly divinities and droves of gods."

Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy. "The beastly vice of drinking to excess."

Abominable; as, beastly weather. (Colloq. Eng.)

Synonyms: Bestial; brutish; irrational; sensual; degrading.

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"Beastly" Quotes from Famous Books

... wasn't the chocolates I was thinking of. The scoop I mean is going to school. It's a jolly sight better than rotting about here with a beastly governess." ...

— Lalage's Lovers - 1911 • George A. Birmingham

... October 18. After a beastly night passed on shipboard, and finding no signs of departure, walked to Ballycanvan, the seat of Cornelius Bolton, Esq.; rode with Mr. Bolton, jun., to Faithleghill, which commands one of the finest views I have seen in Ireland. There is a rock on the ...

— A Tour in Ireland - 1776-1779 • Arthur Young

... those fires!—had not been so discreet. Yet one could not have this sort of thing going on behind Edith's back. All sorts of things one might have going on behind Edith's back, but not this writing and saying of perfectly beastly things about Edith. Nothing could alter the fact that Edith ...

— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells

... body of gentlemen—doubtless the most correct and admirable muster of gentlemen, of anything approaching its volume, that the modern world can show. But the war has turned out not to be a gentlemen's war. It has on the contrary been a war of technological exploits, reenforced with all the beastly devices of the heathen. It is a war in which all the specific traits of the well-bred and gently-minded man are a handicap; in which veracity, gallantry, humanity, liberality are conducive to nothing but defeat and humiliation. The death-rate among the British gentlemen-officers ...

— An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation • Thorstein Veblen

... conversational stock-in-trade, he had the sense to realize, was totally unlike theirs. He could do nothing but sit still, remain physically inert while he was mentally in a state of extreme unrest. He ventured a banality about the weather. Carr smiled faintly. Tommy Ashe observed offhand that the heat was beastly, but not a patch to blizzards and frost. Then ...

— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair

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