bestialize

Example Sentences

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These monkeys raised in the scale were a counterpoise to men brutalized and bestialized.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

Everything tends to lose its hallowed meaning; it becomes degraded, bestialized.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

The wits of our people have been blunted, their habits bestialized, their very climate and landscape ruined.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

He had become, not bestialized, like most of the men I saw, but animalized—he had drifted back into the condition of his dog, with his higher intellect inert.

From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by Stillman, William James