beastly
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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
All of us kids were really excited because we saw them as mythical creatures that were beastly and scary and dangerous.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
Dr Eshwari told the panel she had been busy in the kitchen and in a "beastly rush" when Dr A arrived, but did not refuse to give her name.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2023
I was offended, took it far too much to heart and was insolent and beastly to her, which, in turn, made her unhappy.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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
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 FitzGerald, Edward
"It would be beastlier still not have enough to eat," was the thought in Virgie's heart.
From The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie
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 Shaw, Bernard
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
If we are to survive as a great republic, we must have the best, not the beastliest, from everyone.
From Time Magazine Archive
It’s one of the beastliest things I ever heard.
From The Gold Bat by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
