Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a bestial manner; brutally; as a brute beast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a bestial manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
bestial manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an inhumane manner
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Examples
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And, in turn, I have shown how artificial was the romantic expression of this love instinct, by isolating a boy babe and a girl babe in a natural state wherein they expressed their love instinct bestially and brutally and violently.
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I have to confess that the denizens of Mildmay [a ward in Islington] are almost bestially stupid.
Archive 2007-04-15 Newmania 2007
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I have to confess that the denizens of Mildmay are almost bestially stupid.
Archive 2007-04-22 Newmania 2007
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I have to confess that the denizens of Mildmay are almost bestially stupid.
Infamy Infamy..etc. Newmania 2007
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Mr Newman, who works in insurance and is vice-chairman of Islington North Tories, wrote: I have to confess that the denizens of Mildmay are almost bestially stupid.
Bovvered I am not Newmania 2007
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I have to confess that the denizens of Mildmay [a ward in Islington] are almost bestially stupid.
Anyway back to me ... Newmania 2007
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I have to confess that the denizens of Mildmay are almost bestially stupid .
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For his fame he has to thank just those bestially sensuous pieces which first drew to him the attention of all the pruriency of America.
From Whitman to Wilde: A Cultural Perspective on Individualism at the Fin de Si�cle 2007
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My universe crashing to pieces about me, and my nerves humming like taut piano wires for the vital need that was mine, I crouched in the gutter and gibbered bestially, till Hassim swaggered out and stilled my yammerings with a blow that felled me, half-stunned.
The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Two or three of them to one cup, they greedily and bestially poured neat wine into their insatiable bellies which had the appearance of bloated goatskins.....
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