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beast

[beest] / bist /


NOUN
coarse, crude, or cruel person
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Sea hags have nothing on the fear of performing Nile’s drunken dancing in “The Beast in Me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

R&B singer Peabo Bryson, best known for his voice on Disney classics like A Whole New World and Beauty and the Beast, has died aged 75.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

“First of all, he’s up at all hours of the night, posting all of these lies and crazy stuff,” Gartner told the Daily Beast.

From Salon • May 26, 2026

Still, AI fears are making the Beast of Redmond, as Microsoft is sometimes called, look a little less fearsome.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

You know, before she meets the Beast but when she’s starting to figure out that the whole place is under a magic spell.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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