bestial

Example Sentences

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Although he welcomed the Gladstone apology in Guyana, he said the failure to acknowledge Jamaica hinted at "an unwillingness to face up to the full brutal, bestial horror of chattel slavery" in the country.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2023

White-suited Dr. Moreau herds his bestial mutants and plots to mate his panther-woman with a visitor.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2020

In an interview with The Verge from 2016, Ueda largely attributed this to the difficulties in bestial cat / bird / dog Trico’s technical design.

From The Verge • Dec. 2, 2019

And you said that one of the things that was interesting to you about America was that, despite bestial behavior, we had failed to produce a nation of beasts.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 7, 2019

Was that a kind of bestial derision that he detected in those blank grey eyes?

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley