Beastly
['biːstlɪ] or ['bistli]
Definition
(adj.) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; 'beastly desires'; 'a bestial nature'; 'brute force'; 'a dull and brutish man'; 'bestial treatment of prisoners' .
(adj.) very unpleasant; 'hellish weather'; 'stop that god-awful racket' .
(adv.) in a beastly manner; 'she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law'.
Editor: Warren--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
(a.) Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.
(a.) Abominable; as, beastly weather.
Editor: Nettie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Brutish, brutal, bestial, sensual, irrational.
Checker: Sherman
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BRUTAL]
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Examples
- I hate to be poor, and we are degradingly poor, offensively poor, miserably poor, beastly poor. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Sincerely, then--what should you gain that would compensate for the possibility--the certainty--of a lot of beastly talk? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- A most beastly place. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Our children will probably have beastly temperatures. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Mrs. Dorset, for reasons we needn't go into, did you a beastly bad turn last spring. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You force yourself into horrors, and put a mill-stone of beastly memories round your neck. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I've had a beastly day of it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Beastly place, said Drummle. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You're beastly hard on a fellow; but if you don't mind speaking the truth I don't see why you shouldn't allow me to do the same. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I've got a beastly headache; don't tell any one, but come home, won't you? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- If I am going to warn him I might as well get the beastly job over for I have little stomach to talk with the brute at all. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Checker: Peggy