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beastly

[beest-lee] / ˈbist li /




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It’s the dog days of summer, with beastly heat, no proper holidays, and an abysmal history.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2026

They have a new offensive coordinator in Kellen Moore and added former New York Giants star runner Saquon Barkley, who figures to be beastly if he can stay healthy.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2024

For centuries, the Greek Gorgon Medusa has been cast as a vicious monster, a beastly woman with writhing snakes for hair and a deadly gaze that turns living creatures to stone.

From New York Times May 25, 2024

Dr Eshwari told the panel she had been busy in the kitchen and in a "beastly rush" when Dr A arrived, but did not refuse to give her name.

From BBC Mar. 30, 2023

“One can’t even look with that beastly noise going on.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

As a zombie, his utterances make him seem beastlier than ever to the other humans he encounters.

From Salon Feb. 1, 2026

As the wolf is to the wildcat—the lobos defeated Davidson’s felines in the second round—the tiger is to the wolf: bigger and beastlier.

From Slate Mar. 23, 2012

Did I not say, when I was arranging that affair of Faust's, that all Man's reason has done for him is to make him beastlier than any beast.

From Man and Superman by Bernard Shaw

He scanned Shaftesbury Avenue with a jaundiced eye, and thought that he had never seen a beastlier thoroughfare.

From Uneasy Money by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Because I was a beastlier beast than YOU be.

From His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune

The TLS editor, Stig Abell, protested that exposure had been achieved in the beastliest sort of way, involving money, as opposed to via the more agreeable, practical criticism.

From The Guardian Oct. 8, 2016

And most of all, they had Marshawn Lynch, the beastliest runner in the game.

From Seattle Times Feb. 2, 2015

And then there’s the mobster Isaac, who speaks in his refined accent about the beauty of the opera but may be the beastliest beast of all.

From Slate Oct. 15, 2012

Now when you're traveling, one of the beastliest things is to have to listen to the blare of someone's portable radio.

From Time Magazine Archive

And I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I think that squeaking bird of yours is about the beastliest thing I ever met.

From Uneasy Money by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse




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