bestial

Example Sentences

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Although he welcomed the Gladstone apology in Guyana, he said the failure to acknowledge Jamaica hinted at "an unwillingness to face up to the full brutal, bestial horror of chattel slavery" in the country.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2023

In an interview with The Verge from 2016, Ueda largely attributed this to the difficulties in bestial cat / bird / dog Trico’s technical design.

From The Verge • Dec. 2, 2019

To save her father, a Frenchwoman offers her life to a man under a bestial enchantment but who is noble and grows to love her.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2019

And you said that one of the things that was interesting to you about America was that, despite bestial behavior, we had failed to produce a nation of beasts.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 7, 2019

I backed away from its bestial cry and prayed for gentleness, sank to my knees and prayed as best I could.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson