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
“Her Hair” explores disability, vulnerability and the body through the use of crutches and walkers assembled into a beastly figure awash in fake pink locks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 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
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
How can such a beastly man possess this sort of power over the world?
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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
He calls it Reason—thence his power's increased To be far beastlier than any beast.
From The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith
Or else, Default of other beasts, beastlier men, Cannibals, Anthropophagi, bare Poles Who never knew a tailor but by taste.
From Life Is a Dream by Edward FitzGerald
"It would be beastlier still not have enough to eat," was the thought in Virgie's heart.
From The Daughter Pays by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
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
The drink sold under that honorable name at this restaurant is the beastliest and most poisonous of drinks, not absolutely undrinkable or immediately destructive of life.
From One Year Abroad by Blanche Willis Howard
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