animalistic
Adjective
Meaning
of or pertaining to animalism
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According to his theory, every person has a lower animalistic and higher Godly soul.
Although film depictions include very animalistic facial features, the reaction of the Hogwarts girls to Firenze suggests a more classical appearance.
Also aggressiveness and animalistic urges may be intensified and harder to control (hunger, sexual arousal).
After completing what seems to be a wobbly move, letting out an animalistic grunt, and slamming the barbell back onto its holder, the big boy looks into the camera, eyes squinting and face proud.
In the book, as in America today, the black people are rendered as either passive, simple and childlike, or animalistic and capable of unimaginable violence.
In The Red Badge of Courage, this distance is paired with a great number of references to animals, and men with animalistic characteristics: people "howl", "squawk", "growl", or "snarl".