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beastly

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Adjective, Noun, Adverb
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beast=ly

CIDE DICTIONARY

beastlya. 
  •  Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.  [1913 Webster]
    "Beastly divinities and droves of gods."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.  [1913 Webster]
    "The beastly vice of drinking to excess."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Abominable; as, beastly weather.  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Bestial; brutish; irrational; sensual; degrading.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

beastly, adj. & adv.
--adj. (beastlier, beastliest)
1 colloq. objectionable, unpleasant.
2 like a beast; brutal.
--adv. colloq. very, extremely.

Derivative
beastliness n.

THESAURUS

beastly

Adamic, Circean, Draconian, Tartarean, abhorrent, abominable, abrupt, aggressive, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, anthropophagous, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, base, bearish, beastlike, below contempt, beneath contempt, bestial, blameworthy, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bluff, blunt, bodily, boorish, brash, brusque, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutelike, brutish, cannibalistic, carnal, carnal-minded, cavalier, churlish, coarse, contemptible, crude, cruel, cruel-hearted, crusty, curt, demoniac, demoniacal, deplorable, despicable, detestable, devilish, diabolic, dire, dirty, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, dumb, earthy, egregious, enormous, execrable, fallen, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fetid, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, filthy, flagrant, fleshly, forbidding, foul, fulsome, ghastly, grievous, grim, gross, gruff, harsh, hateful, heinous, hellish, hideous, hoggish, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, ignoble, infamous, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, instinctive, instinctual, intolerable, lamentable, lapsed, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, material, materialistic, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mindless, monstrous, murderous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, nonrational, nonspiritual, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, orgiastic, outrageous, physical, piggish, pitiable, pitiful, postlapsarian, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rough, rude, ruthless, sad, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, severe, shabby, shameful, sharkish, sharp, shocking, shoddy, short, sickening, slavering, snippy, sordid, squalid, stinking, subhuman, surly, swinish, terrible, too bad, tragic, truculent, unchristian, uncivil, uncivilized, unclean, uncultivated, unhuman, unpleasant, unrefined, unspeakable, unspiritual, vicious, vile, villainous, woeful, wolfish, worst, worthless, wretched, zoic, zooidal, zoologic

ROGET THESAURUS

beastly

Uncleanness

N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.


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