beastliness

Example Sentences

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Dudamel may or may not have meant this as a statement of world affairs, but it could be heard as an impressively nuanced expression of how beauty and beastliness coexist in nature and society.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2023

A military historian who has written about many cockpits of savagery — the Spanish Civil War, Stalingrad, Berlin in spring 1945 — Beevor has chronicled much beastliness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022

Parents are half one thing, half another, stuck in no-win cage matches that pit domesticity against the beastliness built into human nature.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2017

You can't touch a screaming-headline saga of human beastliness unless some otherwise deplorable organ has broached it first.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2012

The blocks were dean—for the sportsmen of those days considered that, if you went in for blood sports, it was your duty to conceal the beastliness with scrupulous care.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White