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UK
/bˈiːstlinəs/
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NOUN
- unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather
- the quality of being deliberately mean
How To Use beastliness In A Sentence
- Nevertheless, Sufiya's suppressed feelings eventually surface, and her childlike beauty gives way to beastliness.
- If hunters are going to use beastliness to justify their bloodlust, they should also support going back to the good old days when we put pigs on trial for stepping on mice.
- He needs Belle's help to tame his beastliness and show his sweet side.
- But you, who have opened the books and who share my awful confidence -- you know him for what he is, brother to you and the dust, a cosmic joke, a sport of chemistry, a garmented beast that arose out of the ruck of screaming beastliness by virtue and accident of two opposable great toes. Chapter 36
- Flyers 'talent supply matches up well, but their real advantage is in beastliness. USATODAY.com
- The Flyers 'talent supply matches up well, but their real advantage is in beastliness. USATODAY.com - A look at the first-round playoff matchups
- Welch has been justly celebrated as a business lion - and the book reveals a certain beastliness.
- The sun drove through their skins, ripping and smashing tissues and nerves, till they became sick in mind and body, tossed most of the Decalogue overboard, descended to beastliness, drank themselves into quick graves, or survived so savagely that war vessels were sometimes sent to curb their license. A SON OF THE SUN
- And again, a little later on in the same year, Punch compares the "beastliness" of Jenkins, "the life-long toad-eater," with the "beastly fellow" denounced in the Morning Post for swallowing twelve frogs for a wager! Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
- She would have been quite willing to shew to her mother all these expressions of her lover's love; but she felt that it would not be fair to him to expose his allusions to the "beastliness" at the stations. An Eye for an Eye