beastly
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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
"I've sometimes been accused of degrading mankind, or insulting human dignity, of making man beastly," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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
But how could she say she had heard nothing but the beastly racket of the looms?
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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
Because I was a beastlier beast than YOU be.
From His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
Or else, Default of other beasts, beastlier men, Cannibals, Anthropophagi, bare Poles Who never knew a tailor but by taste.
From Life Is a Dream by Edward FitzGerald
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
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
If we are to survive as a great republic, we must have the best, not the beastliest, from everyone.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Yes, and I repeat again," replied that worthy, "it is the beastliest hole it has ever been my luck to get stranded in."
From With Edge Tools by H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor
