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beastly(1) (iou) - Pest Star


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beastly(1) (iou)



beastly adjective. ['bi:stli] ME.
[from BEAST noun + -LY1.]
Unthinking, unintelligent, irrational. ME-E18.
R. Recorde To bring the people from beastly rage to manly reason.
Obeying animal instincts, sensual. ME.
Swift The beastly vice of drinking to excess.
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a beast; animal, natural. arch. LME.
J. Ruskin The 'breeding' of a man is what he gets from the Centaur Chiron; the 'beastly' part of him in a good sense.
Abominable, foul; disgusting, offensive; colloq. unpleasant, ill-natured, undesirable, detestable. L16.
Disraeli The steam packet is a beastly conveyance. N. Coward It was beastly of you to laugh like that, I felt so humiliated. Stevie Smith There goes the beastly bell Tolling us to lessons. J. Johnston You must stop biting your nails. It's a beastly habit.
beastliness noun beastly quality or behaviour LME.

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