beastly
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It’s the dog days of summer, with beastly heat, no proper holidays, and an abysmal history.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
"We have all the brilliant classic pantomime elements: a beastly baddie, a heroic heroine, amazing dance routines and side-splitting comedy," said Ms Wood.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025
Not long after everyone tumbles into their normal lives again, the beastly debt snarling at their throats sends many running back to the arena either to get rich or die trying.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
For centuries, the Greek Gorgon Medusa has been cast as a vicious monster, a beastly woman with writhing snakes for hair and a deadly gaze that turns living creatures to stone.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2024
“The beastly old kettle is smashed to bits, thanks to Ellidyr,” he went on sadly.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
As a zombie, his utterances make him seem beastlier than ever to the other humans he encounters.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026
As the wolf is to the wildcat—the lobos defeated Davidson’s felines in the second round—the tiger is to the wolf: bigger and beastlier.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2012
“You make me feel such a beastly cad—the son of a beastlier cad—” She turned and laid her hand upon his lips, shaking her head at him reprovingly.
From The Triumph of Jill by F.E. Mills Young
And this war is beastlier than any other, so the rubbish is less counteracted by the decent writers.
From Non-combatants and Others by Dame Rose Macaulay
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.
From Man and Superman by Bernard Shaw
The TLS editor, Stig Abell, protested that exposure had been achieved in the beastliest sort of way, involving money, as opposed to via the more agreeable, practical criticism.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2016
And most of all, they had Marshawn Lynch, the beastliest runner in the game.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2015
And then there’s the mobster Isaac, who speaks in his refined accent about the beauty of the opera but may be the beastliest beast of all.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2012
Now when you're traveling, one of the beastliest things is to have to listen to the blare of someone's portable radio.
From Time Magazine Archive
“That’s the beastliest thing I’ve ever heard in my life,” declared Toodles feebly, as if astonishment had robbed him of all his buoyant strength in a second.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
