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bestiality

[bes-chee-al-i-tee, bees-] / ˌbɛs tʃiˈæl ɪ ti, ˌbis- /


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Hence war, hence adultery, hence bestiality, Tim continues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

“Elite panic” is the sociological term for it, when wealthy people are convinced that the peasants will dissolve into bestiality and preemptively start shooting anyone who wanders into their neighborhoods during a crisis.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2020

In 2012, Holst became the chair of Denmark’s Animal Ethics Council, which advises the government on issues such as cloning, bestiality, and ritual slaughter.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017

The Greek authorities banned Katidis from playing in national teams for life while condemning him for insulting "the victims of Nazi bestiality" and "injuring the deeply pacifist and human character of the game".

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2013

Dickens exhibits Monks as beginning his career as an innocent and beautiful child; but as ending his life as a mass of solid bestiality, a mere chunk of fleshed iniquity.

From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis

The bestialities of World War I made the romance and optimism of his work go out of fashion, for that era brought the onslaught of symbolism, Freudian introspection, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bestialities of the last War were likewise excoriated by German Artist George Grosz.

From Time Magazine Archive

They walk with God, and the bestialities of us animals are fantastic to them.

From Saint's Progress by John Galsworthy

The stupidity of Claudius is discovered to be astuteness, the bestialities of Nero elegance.

From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross

The reaction against the photographic style, on the other hand, leads to spasmodic efforts to arouse the jaded interest by forced sensationalism, physiological bestialities, and a crude form of the hobgoblin and bogey business.

From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison




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