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beastly
/ˈbiːstli/
adj 4adv 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
most
VERB + BEASTLY
insulted, stop
BEASTLY + NOUN
culture, person, threwe
ADV.
moreover
Definitions
adj
1
Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
2
Similar to the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of human beings.
beastly culture
3
Abominable; very unpleasant; hideous.
beastly weather
Stop being so beastly to her!
4
Of computer hardware or motor vehicles etc.: ostentatiously powerful.
In addition to a Core i7-860 with a full-sized heatsink and 4GB of DDR3 RAM, the company showed its SUGO SG07 housing today's most beastly graphics card, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970, which is about 30cm long.
A very big, very black, and very beastly Hummer H2, Spotted in China in in the rain the great city of Zigong in Sichuan Province.
adv
1
Like a beast; brutishly.
Beastly he threwe her downe, ne car'd to spill / Her garments gay with scales of fish that all did fill.
They have insulted me most beastly. Moreover, they are, everyone of them, black-satan filthmen.
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beastly culture
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beastly weather
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Stop being so beastly to her!
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Beastly he threwe her downe, ne car'd to spill / Her garments gay with scales of fish that all did fill.
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They have insulted me most beastly. Moreover, they are, everyone of them, black-satan filthmen.
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The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-Laodicean characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beast
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