beastly

Speech parts

1. beastly - Adjective

2. beastly - Adverb

3. beastly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.

Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.

Abominable; as, beastly weather.

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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing. Quentin Crisp

I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable. John Mortimer

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required. P. G. Wodehouse

We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they? Sid Vicious

To err is human, to persist in it, beastly. Italian Proverb

Against the beastly human being even the Gods are powerless. Czech Proverb

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