Beastly

Word BEASTLY
Character 7
Hyphenation beast ly
Pronunciations /ˈbiːstli/

Definitions and meanings of "Beastly"

What do we mean by beastly?

Of or resembling a beast; bestial. adjective

Very disagreeable; unpleasant. adjective

To an extreme degree; very. adverb

Natural; animal: the opposite of spiritual.

Like a beast in form or nature; animal.

Like a beast in conduct or instincts; brutal; filthy; coarse.

Befitting a beast; unfit for human use; filthy; abominable.

Nasty; disagreeable: as, beastly weather.

Synonyms Brutal, Bestial, etc. See brute.

In the manner of a beast; filthily; abominably.

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

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

Abominable. adjective

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

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

Abominable adjective

Like a beast; brutishly. adverb

Very unpleasant adjective

Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility adjective

In a beastly manner adverb

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

Similar to the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man

Abominable.

(of computing hardware) Powerful, having a powerful appearance

Synonyms and Antonyms for Beastly

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The word "beastly" in example sentences

Well, actually, the term beastly means beastly for a reason: because this is how beasts behave. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To such a being the golden gates are closed; and the Easterners, whom he despised for what he termed their beastly lethargies, have taught me the real secret of the poppy. ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)

We cross lakes in beastly winds, whitecaps slopping over the sides of the canoes, then grind out in bony streambeds where the water dribbles through hundreds of yards of boulder and cobble. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I say, I beg your pardon, frightfully — I'm afraid I'm bein 'beastly long-winded. ❋ Dorothy Leigh (1923)

"What do you call the beastly stuff?" asked Telson. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)

"They would have been glad enough of some of the weather you call beastly," said Hester, again pulling through a stiff needle, this time without any smile, for sometimes that brother was more than she could bear. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Highlands, as they call their beastly wildernesses, (no offence again,) ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

"You've come back what I call a beastly sneak, you know, this term. ❋ F. Anstey (1895)

That the world should be beastly is natural, but that the faithful bride should become the whore is monstrous, and excites the same amazement in him as the same awful change in Israel excited in ❋ Unknown (1871)

(To avoid the overdone word beastly—which however happens to be the right one here; bestial describes character or conduct) ❋ Unknown (1908)

No duke likes to hear his conduct described as beastly by an angel child -- especially when the description happens to be accurate -- and the duke ground his teeth. ❋ Edgar Jepson (1900)

Perhaps the best known book about Syrie is the one by her friend Beverley Nichols -- A Case of Human Bondage -- published in 1966 that purported to pull back the silk curtains on Somerset's "beastly" behavior towards her. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Despite some occasional cumbersome verbiage, there's no denying the wonderfully creepy mood of the story, the complex portrayal of the wife (who abhors not only women's secondary place in society but the "beastly" marital relations that it dictates), and the final comeuppance-with-a-twist. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In looking further at the "beastly" aspects of India, by one estimate, according to The Economist, only 13% of the sewage India's 1.1 billion people produce is treated. ❋ Unknown (2009)

O.K., besides "beastly" in the headline, there is the lead: "Situation wanted: will work for hay." ❋ Unknown (2009)

It may in fact have been his way of mastering emotion that might otherwise have mastered him: it's significant that he once said such "beastly" characters as Humbert were "outside my inner self," like gargoyles on the façade of a cathedral, "demons placed there merely to show that they have been booted out." ❋ Unknown (2008)

For that can we turn to Charles Harrington Elster, if we can stomach a writer who characterizes anything other than his parochial prejudices as 'beastly'. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This bus was a knife, plunging deep into some kind of beastly belly, from which there might indeed be no safe return. ❋ Richard Rubin (2002)

We have to investigate Orwell's writings as historical source material with as full a knowledge as possible of his conscious purposes (especially his commitment to democratic socialism and to high aesthetic standards) and his unconscious traits (especially his puritanism and his pessimism: his first recorded word, as an eighteen-month old baby, had been 'beastly'). ❋ Unknown (1997)

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