animalistic
Example Sentences
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“Second Skin” is more sociological than sexy; more anthropological than animalistic.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
Now, in the week running up to the Six Nations, he's talking in animalistic terms again.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
Mr. Sturridge is almost animalistic and at times absurdly funny in delineating Mat’s sudden and obsessive love; it seems to draw him to Anna with an almost overpowering force.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
Each year, those firms become more intelligent and more omniscient about the markets, while the market mob becomes more animalistic and less focused on risks taken in pursuit of rewards.
From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025
Her breath was ragged, animalistic, the opposite of pretty.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
