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beastly(2)(dictionary)
beastly(dictionary)
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beastly(1) (iou) and reply 1, verb (oh)


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.

reply 1, verb (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: replier 'to fold again', from Latin replicare, from plicare 'to fold']
[I and T] to answer someone by saying or Writing something
::I asked Clive where he was going, but he didn't reply.
::Sorry it took me so long to reply.
::'Did you see Simon today?' 'Of course,' Nathalie replied with a smile.
reply to
::Has Ian replied to your letter yet?
reply that
::Mills replied that he was staying at his parents' flat.
[I] to react to an action by doing something else
reply (to sth) with sth
::The rebel troops replied to government threats with increased violence.