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beast

[beest] / bist /


NOUN
coarse, crude, or cruel person
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Antonyms


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In second place sat a far-less scary beast: "The Cat in the Hat."

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

With 19 policymakers, it is difficult to make progress given diverse individual perspectives, strongly held views and the challenge of reforming such a complicated beast.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

When the leathery beast slunk off, singer James Hetfield dedicated the track to the band’s founding bassist, who died in a tour bus crash in 1986.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

The Wakefield club that Johnstone started out at is almost a different beast more than a decade on, for the better, but the fanbase has remained the same - committed, loyal and vocal.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The beast shook as he transformed himself back and forth between his goatherd self and the grotesque form of the fiendish chupacabras.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

There are green-skinned beasts and monosyllabic men with impossibly tall blond hair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Industry big beasts Christian Dior and Saint Laurent will send their models out on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

He told Italian news agency Ansa: "People act based on their own experiences and I know what it's like to be hit by one of these beasts."

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

The otherworldly beasts and enigmatic masks of Sanxingdui still enthrall China, decades after the unearthing of ceremonial pits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Two hulking beasts tore through the bushes where we'd stood just seconds before.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda


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