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bestiality

[bes-chee-al-i-tee, bees-] / ˌbɛs tʃiˈæl ɪ ti, ˌbis- /


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Hence war, hence adultery, hence bestiality, Tim continues.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

“Elite panic” is the sociological term for it, when wealthy people are convinced that the peasants will dissolve into bestiality and preemptively start shooting anyone who wanders into their neighborhoods during a crisis.

From Slate Oct. 13, 2020

The invasion, as historians recall, worked because, at that moment, there was a genuine impulse, however scarred by national rivalries, to intervene on behalf of humanity against bestiality.

From The New Yorker Jun. 6, 2019

The Greek authorities banned Katidis from playing in national teams for life while condemning him for insulting "the victims of Nazi bestiality" and "injuring the deeply pacifist and human character of the game".

From The Guardian Apr. 1, 2013

He that can find satisfaction in thus swapping off bestiality for diabolism, let him find it.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith

The bestialities of the last War were likewise excoriated by German Artist George Grosz.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bestialities of World War I made the romance and optimism of his work go out of fashion, for that era brought the onslaught of symbolism, Freudian introspection, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.

From Time Magazine Archive

Was it the phantasm of one of those poor waifs and strays, having all their bestialities and diseases magnified; or was it the spirit of a tree of some unusually noxious nature?

From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell

The stupidity of Claudius is discovered to be astuteness, the bestialities of Nero elegance.

From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross

Observing the facts of life, stating them in clear, definite form, he revealed the petty existence of the people, their happenings, their bestialities, their passions.

From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans




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