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Bestial   /bˈɛstʃəl/   Listen
Bestial

adjective
1.
Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility.  Synonyms: beastly, brutal, brute, brutish.  "A bestial nature" , "Brute force" , "A dull and brutish man" , "Bestial treatment of prisoners"



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"Bestial" Quotes from Famous Books



... him. His staring eyes closed, his head fell forward, his whole body collapsed like an empty sack. He fell, twitched once or twice, and was dead—dead ere the attackers could reach the door of steel where his bestial masters had ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England

... silly tawpie," said her father, "we have naething to do how they come by the bestial they sell—be that atween them and their consciences.—Aweel—Take notice, Jenny, of that dour, stour-looking carle that sits by the cheek o' the ingle, and turns his back on a' men. He looks like ane o' the hill-folk, for I saw him start a wee when he saw ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... in his mid-life storm and stress, so in Prospero we think we recognize the ideal of his ripeness. There is the wise man torn from books and reverie, and rudely thrust upon treachery and the stormy sea; there is control gained over airy powers and ethereal beauties; struggle with bestial evil; forgiveness of the wrong-doer; happiness in the happiness of his child, and willing surrender of her to her lover; the admonition that love perfect itself by the mastery of passion. So wise, so beneficent, so lofty is Shakspere's latest creation. ...
— The Chief End of Man • George S. Merriam

... surface, and with a quick slice Clee made his first incision. With the cut, the prone slave bucked and snarled. Clee murmured soothing words to it in English, and, as the creature quieted down, made another cut. Again came the bucking and throaty protest; and this time, to Jim's dismay, he saw in the bestial faces of the animal-men around them a sympathetic swing of emotional protest. A little more, now; and Clee would be able to take the disk out; but would the ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various

... opprobrium by us is read, When we part company, the name of her Who bestialized herself in bestial wood. ...
— Dante's Purgatory • Dante


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