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Meanings of beastliness in English

The quality of being deliberately mean.

        Usage of beastliness in English
        1
        There was no nastiness, and no beastliness, and no drunkenness about it.
        The American Senator
        2
        Still, you can thank my beastliness for Aunt Frances and Uncle Anthony.
        The Tree of Heaven
        3
        People don't dare to decline from beastliness-they'llbe killed themselves for it.
        Mother
        4
        So we have, what is called, the beastliness in the Teuton.
        Villa Elsa / A Story of German Family Life
        5
        Every conversation led up to one subject-thebeastliness of the men.
        Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
        6
        Cast that beastliness to the sea, and be done with it.
        Gudrid the Fair / A Tale of the Discovery of America
        7
        If I could, I would stop my beastliness and become Christlike.
        The Secret City
        8
        But it's a bit of a pull-goingback to that-beastliness.
        The Soul of the War
        9
        She said, It's your beastliness to poor Larry that I mind.
        The Tree of Heaven
        10
        That was a thrill of beastliness, but gave no fire to men's hearts.
        The Soul of the War
        11
        Who is that man fallen against the curbstone, covered with bruises and beastliness?
        The Abominations of Modern Society
        12
        Mr. Thomas Potter was the peer of either in beastliness.
        A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III
        13
        And the end of that-organized ,scientificbeastliness, like modern war.
        The Dark House
        14
        Complain woke, groaning, humiliated by the beastliness of his dream.
        Non-Stop
        15
        They've driven us out of our messroom with their beastliness.
        The Romantic
        16
        And it isn't the beastliness of it that matters most!
        Notes from the Underground
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        Beastliness through the time
        Beastliness across language varieties
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