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Definition of beastly in English: beastlyadjectivebeastliest, beastlier ˈbiːstliˈbistli 1British informal Very unpleasant. Example sentencesExamples - Punk, let me remind you, had happened nine years earlier and had evolved into art rock sub-genres every bit as beastly as the muck that it had, in theory, swept aside.
- I used up my stash this morning when I went out to give my French beans some protection against beasties and beastly weather.
- Scotland was the ‘blessed, beastly place’ and it filled his thoughts - and his work - wherever he happened to be.
- Trampling in stilettos over her father's reputation, she reveals him as a drunken, hypocritical philanderer with a beastly temper.
- The weather today has been absolutely beastly.
- I wonder if you wouldn't find a self-destruct timer inside the beastly things if you knew where to look.
- It was a counter showing the beauty of his play and the beastly nature of luck.
- I swallowed my first bitter pill from this beastly industry, and have certainly learned a valuable lesson.
- Leeds, however, was dismissed in a letter as ‘a beastly place’, and Harrogate was ‘the queerest place, with the strangest people in it’.
- Once there he got rid of those beastly worms, planted flowers and trees, and built his hundredth church, which he dedicated to the Holy Apostles.
- Yet again you moaned about how you hate acting, hate film-making and hate all the beastly attention.
- I once had a tiresome interview with his wife about the beastly thing.
- It's beastly, but it can be treated, especially if it's caught early.
- I'd been fiddling with the beastly thing for an hour and couldn't persuade it to come out.
- I wish this beastly winter would hurry up & get over.
- So why all the beastly transmogrifications, I ask Kay over our lunchtime bowls of coconut and lime soup.
- It's been a beastly job - the builders had used some user-unfriendly adhesive, making the removal of the old vinyl a slow, messy and tedious task.
- Mopp gear - the stuff soldiers have to wear to fend off the nasties - is not only beastly to wear, it also reduces your vision and slows down your optempo.
- But fear not as the boy wizard is only perfecting a little magic away from the prying eyes of his beastly uncle Vernon.
Synonyms disagreeable, irksome, troublesome, annoying, irritating, vexatious, displeasing, uncomfortable, distressing, nasty, horrible, appalling, terrible, awful, dreadful, hateful, detestable, miserable, abominable, execrable, odious, invidious, objectionable, offensive, obnoxious, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, revolting, disgusting, distasteful, nauseating, unsavoury, unpalatable, ugly awful, horrible, rotten, nasty, foul, objectionable, unpleasant, disagreeable, offensive, vile, hateful, detestable, loathsome, abominable - 1.1 Unkind; malicious.
Example sentencesExamples - Kennedy's lieutenants made it known they want him to quit, but would not be so beastly as to force him to go.
- The police said that he was quite annoyed with his wife as she had protested against his beastly act.
- When even well-meaning people get together in hierarchical, committee-rich structures, they do beastly things and call it progress.
- You have certainly suffered from some pretty beastly journalism at times.
- I tend to have little time for the argument that evil is an external property that is independent of any viewer or participant of the action mainly because it's often used by people to justify some quite beastly things.
- When she is not at her desk, nervy Virginia is being beastly to the staff, ordering her mutinous cook to make a train journey all the way from Richmond to the centre of town to get some sugar-ginger for lunch.
- They give us a bracing insight into the beastly side of our own nature that can manifest itself in our leaders, even though we are a fundamentally decent people.
- Now see here, my good man, if we send these fellows back, will you promise not to be beastly to them?
- How man turns beastly to man as soon as you grant him an inch of power over his victim was very interesting, especially the power games and humiliation meted out.
- It doesn't make you any more special than the rest of us, or excuse you for being so beastly.
- What soft sensitivities did CNN's beastly behavior violate?
- And then I have great sympathy for him, as far as the press are concerned, because the press are pretty beastly to all the royal family these days.
- While lecturing the men of Ireland in public about their mistreatment of women, they apparently had no problem being beastly to each other in the privacy of their home.
- Anyway, I'd better stop being a beastly child and get on with it.
- At the same time, beastly community wardens are roaming around beady-eyed and as keen as mustard, driving the revellers, drug dealers, stolen property swappers and worse off the streets.
- Also left to guesswork is the complicity of the prison authorities in this beastly society.
- Professor Hanson was being quite beastly to Jane when Dick's hand shot up amidst the sea of uniforms with a question.
- He was always to be found sulking in a saturnine fashion and behaving in a beastly way to Margaret Lockwood or Ann Todd.
- Why are women quite so beastly to each other in these post-feminist times?
Synonyms unkind, malicious, mean, nasty, unpleasant, unfriendly, uncharitable, unfair, spiteful, callous, cruel, vicious, base, low, foul, malevolent, despicable, contemptible, obnoxious
2archaic Cruel and unrestrained. Example sentencesExamples - Machiavelli's celebrated advice is that he will come off best if he learns to imitate both the fox and the lion, supplementing the ideals of manly decency with the beastly arts of force and fraud.
- But it was beastly, their violence and our fear of violence.
Synonyms savage, cruel, bloodthirsty, vicious, ferocious, barbaric, barbarous, wicked, murderous, cold-blooded, hard-hearted, harsh
adverb ˈbiːstliˈbistli British dated, informal as submodifier To an extreme and unpleasant degree. a beastly dull wedding party Example sentencesExamples - The wide obi is very beautiful but it looks beastly uncomfortable.
- That may be satisfactory to you but it is beastly monotonous here.
- Napa cabernets and the so-called ‘cult’ cabs can be beastly expensive, but not necessarily better.
- That was beastly uncomfortable, and made me even more glum.
Definition of beastly in US English: beastlyadjectiveˈbēstlēˈbistli 1British informal Very unpleasant. Example sentencesExamples - It was a counter showing the beauty of his play and the beastly nature of luck.
- I wish this beastly winter would hurry up & get over.
- So why all the beastly transmogrifications, I ask Kay over our lunchtime bowls of coconut and lime soup.
- I'd been fiddling with the beastly thing for an hour and couldn't persuade it to come out.
- The weather today has been absolutely beastly.
- I wonder if you wouldn't find a self-destruct timer inside the beastly things if you knew where to look.
- It's been a beastly job - the builders had used some user-unfriendly adhesive, making the removal of the old vinyl a slow, messy and tedious task.
- Scotland was the ‘blessed, beastly place’ and it filled his thoughts - and his work - wherever he happened to be.
- Mopp gear - the stuff soldiers have to wear to fend off the nasties - is not only beastly to wear, it also reduces your vision and slows down your optempo.
- Leeds, however, was dismissed in a letter as ‘a beastly place’, and Harrogate was ‘the queerest place, with the strangest people in it’.
- It's beastly, but it can be treated, especially if it's caught early.
- But fear not as the boy wizard is only perfecting a little magic away from the prying eyes of his beastly uncle Vernon.
- Once there he got rid of those beastly worms, planted flowers and trees, and built his hundredth church, which he dedicated to the Holy Apostles.
- I once had a tiresome interview with his wife about the beastly thing.
- Trampling in stilettos over her father's reputation, she reveals him as a drunken, hypocritical philanderer with a beastly temper.
- I swallowed my first bitter pill from this beastly industry, and have certainly learned a valuable lesson.
- Punk, let me remind you, had happened nine years earlier and had evolved into art rock sub-genres every bit as beastly as the muck that it had, in theory, swept aside.
- I used up my stash this morning when I went out to give my French beans some protection against beasties and beastly weather.
- Yet again you moaned about how you hate acting, hate film-making and hate all the beastly attention.
Synonyms disagreeable, irksome, troublesome, annoying, irritating, vexatious, displeasing, uncomfortable, distressing, nasty, horrible, appalling, terrible, awful, dreadful, hateful, detestable, miserable, abominable, execrable, odious, invidious, objectionable, offensive, obnoxious, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, revolting, disgusting, distasteful, nauseating, unsavoury, unpalatable, ugly awful, horrible, rotten, nasty, foul, objectionable, unpleasant, disagreeable, offensive, vile, hateful, detestable, loathsome, abominable - 1.1 Unkind; malicious.
Example sentencesExamples - Professor Hanson was being quite beastly to Jane when Dick's hand shot up amidst the sea of uniforms with a question.
- He was always to be found sulking in a saturnine fashion and behaving in a beastly way to Margaret Lockwood or Ann Todd.
- While lecturing the men of Ireland in public about their mistreatment of women, they apparently had no problem being beastly to each other in the privacy of their home.
- Now see here, my good man, if we send these fellows back, will you promise not to be beastly to them?
- At the same time, beastly community wardens are roaming around beady-eyed and as keen as mustard, driving the revellers, drug dealers, stolen property swappers and worse off the streets.
- They give us a bracing insight into the beastly side of our own nature that can manifest itself in our leaders, even though we are a fundamentally decent people.
- The police said that he was quite annoyed with his wife as she had protested against his beastly act.
- How man turns beastly to man as soon as you grant him an inch of power over his victim was very interesting, especially the power games and humiliation meted out.
- You have certainly suffered from some pretty beastly journalism at times.
- What soft sensitivities did CNN's beastly behavior violate?
- When she is not at her desk, nervy Virginia is being beastly to the staff, ordering her mutinous cook to make a train journey all the way from Richmond to the centre of town to get some sugar-ginger for lunch.
- Kennedy's lieutenants made it known they want him to quit, but would not be so beastly as to force him to go.
- I tend to have little time for the argument that evil is an external property that is independent of any viewer or participant of the action mainly because it's often used by people to justify some quite beastly things.
- Why are women quite so beastly to each other in these post-feminist times?
- Also left to guesswork is the complicity of the prison authorities in this beastly society.
- When even well-meaning people get together in hierarchical, committee-rich structures, they do beastly things and call it progress.
- Anyway, I'd better stop being a beastly child and get on with it.
- And then I have great sympathy for him, as far as the press are concerned, because the press are pretty beastly to all the royal family these days.
- It doesn't make you any more special than the rest of us, or excuse you for being so beastly.
Synonyms unkind, malicious, mean, nasty, unpleasant, unfriendly, uncharitable, unfair, spiteful, callous, cruel, vicious, base, low, foul, malevolent, despicable, contemptible, obnoxious
2archaic Cruel and unrestrained. Example sentencesExamples - Machiavelli's celebrated advice is that he will come off best if he learns to imitate both the fox and the lion, supplementing the ideals of manly decency with the beastly arts of force and fraud.
- But it was beastly, their violence and our fear of violence.
Synonyms savage, cruel, bloodthirsty, vicious, ferocious, barbaric, barbarous, wicked, murderous, cold-blooded, hard-hearted, harsh
adverbˈbēstlēˈbistli British dated, informal as submodifier Possessing a specified characteristic to an intense and unpleasant degree. Example sentencesExamples - Napa cabernets and the so-called ‘cult’ cabs can be beastly expensive, but not necessarily better.
- The wide obi is very beautiful but it looks beastly uncomfortable.
- That may be satisfactory to you but it is beastly monotonous here.
- That was beastly uncomfortable, and made me even more glum.
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