beetly

There's an alien race in his books called the Prador, and they're very war-like and have a very "beetly" appearance from their descriptions.

Everybody Has Cool Names in the Future! 2009

Not large, it was a beetly pod with humanoid facial characteristics and a generous brainpan; yet it was unmistakable as an insect, a spineless thing with tines and mandible.

Locust Valley Breakdown Andrew Edwards 2012

I had known Thogg'n was some supposed arthropod lord of the inner earth, especially noted during the beetly summer of a more primitive Northeast than we had come to inherit.

Locust Valley Breakdown Andrew Edwards 2012

Lady GaGa went back to her Italian roots with her beetly brows, while Adam Lambert drew his on with a magic marker.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

Lady GaGa went back to her Italian roots with her beetly brows, while Adam Lambert drew his on with a magic marker.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

But, all the same, Wrench's tom-cat had leaped gently down to the floor, and from there he bounded on to one of the lines of desks, along which he stole very carefully, pausing to sniff at each keyhole as he leaned over, fully aware as he was that several of these desks were used as menageries, in addition to a very favourite one where he had paused more than once on account of the delicious black-beetly odour stealing up through the cracks, and which denoted white mice.

Glyn Severn's Schooldays George Manville Fenn 1870

O’Roarke, fervxamplus), even ventured so far as to loan or beg copies of D. Blayncy’s trilingual triweekly, Scatterbrains’ Aftening Posht, so as to make certain sure onetime and be satisfied of their quasicontribusodalitarian’s having become genuinely quite beetly dead whether by land whither by water.

Finnegans Wake 2006

"Yes, there is a black-beetly smell; but I thought it was the wood.

First in the Field A Story of New South Wales George Manville Fenn 1870