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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

The invasion, as historians recall, worked because, at that moment, there was a genuine impulse, however scarred by national rivalries, to intervene on behalf of humanity against bestiality.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2019

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

The herding instinct of man was responsible for the corruption of civilization, and Michael thought of the bestiality of a crowd.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

If I had time, I would gladly go there again for a couple of weeks, to find a little solitude in the Zoological Gardens and to forget somewhat other bestialities.

From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Constance Bache

The Cancan has taken its place on the boards of every stage in the city, apparently to stay; and the exquisite jota and cachucha are giving way to the bestialities of the casino cadet.

From Castilian Days by John Hay

Observing the facts of life, stating them in clear, definite form, he revealed the petty existence of the people, their happenings, their bestialities, their passions.

From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans




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