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US
/ˈbɛstʃəɫ/
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[ UK /bˈɛstjəl/ ]
[ UK /bˈɛstjəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
a dull and brutish man
a bestial nature
bestial treatment of prisoners
brute force
beastly desires
How To Use bestial In A Sentence
- That is, the Olympian Zeus 'ban on human creativity: which shows Zeus's intended bestialization of all mortal human individuals, by forbidding, not only the use, but the discovery of any universal physical principle, such as "fire," or, today, nuclear-fission power. LaRouche's Latest
- It is shocking that humans can behave with such bestiality towards others.
- It was a bestial reminder of man's inhumanity to man.
- He was even caricatured and abused for his attempt to "bestialize" his species by the introduction into their systems of diseased matter from the cow's udder. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance
- In each the primitive, sometimes bestial is joined obdurately to the modern and sophisticated.
- The mentality of collective punishment raises its ugly head in all wars, there is no difference in the behavior of soldiers at war, they all act in the most bestial way.
- People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Forgetting all the principles for which they were fighting in their endless war against their enemy, they have become savage barbarians teetering on the very edge of bestiality.
- The Committee will not stop its work until ‘those who organized and particularly those who ordered this bestial crime have been arrested and brought to justice.’
- Each German soldier should consider himself ‘the bearer of an inexorable national idea and the avenger of all bestialities inflicted upon the German people and its racial kin’. Sealing Their Fate