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
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
But he was also crying because people were so beastly and unfair, and because he was only a little boy and couldn’t do anything against them.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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
Life somewhat better might content him, But for the gleam of heavenly light which Thou hast lent him: He calls it Reason—thence his power's increased, To be far beastlier than any beast.
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
“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
He scanned Shaftesbury Avenue with a jaundiced eye, and thought that he had never seen a beastlier thoroughfare.
From Uneasy Money by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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 the beastliest affliction can come to an active man.
From The Leopard Woman by Stewart Edward White
