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  • adjective comparative form of beastly: more beastly

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Examples

  • The main thing that has been achieved by the recent diplomatic maneuvers is what Washington considers to be a more favorable public-relations ambience for making the war bigger, bloodier, and beastlier.

    A Special Supplement: Vietnam: How Not to Negotiate Draper, Theodore H. 1967

  • He scanned Shaftesbury Avenue with a jaundiced eye, and thought that he had never seen a beastlier thoroughfare.

    Uneasy Money 1928

  • I think that I was beastlier than I meant to be, but I am not accustomed to young kids.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • They saw man working with intellect to bring ruin, and working without intellect to bring something beastlier than man should know.

    William Shakespeare John Masefield 1922

  • Did I not say, when I was arranging that affair of Faust’s, that all Man’s reason has done for him is to make him beastlier than any beast.

    Act III 1903

  • I not say, when I was arranging that affair of Faust's, that all Man's reason has done for him is to make him beastlier than any beast.

    Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • "This is beastly stuff of the doctor's, Chris, it puts my monkey up; I can't help swearing after I've taken it; it's as beastly as a vulgar woman's laugh, and I don't know anything beastlier than that!"

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Glory apart, I could think for a long time without hitting on anywhere beastlier to be except perhaps just the other side of a breastwork thirty yards off where the Bosch has been dropping heavy crumps in threes with monotonous regularity since an indecent hour this morning.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916 Various 1898

  • My big gripe came at breakfast, when I wished for good coffee and proper jams rather than those beastly mini-pots and mini-butter pats, and even beastlier sachets of mustard.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Sport, travel, weather, things to do, features and much more The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites The Economist* From the archive: If you can think of something even beastlier, do it -

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

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