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Meanings of beastly in English

Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility.

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Very unpleasant.

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Usage of beastly in English
1
It's a beastly night.' But Castle followed him into the cold drizzle.
The Human Factor
2
The beastly hypercar is now the most expensive new automobile ever manufactured.
The South African
3
I shall find somewhere to shelter until this beastly spell is over.
The Magicians of Caprona
4
Jungle fever, my dear fellow, jungle fever; caught in that beastly tiger-hunt.
Mr. Isaacs, A Tale of Modern India
5
Put that beastly thing in the drawer while I tell you, then.
Driftwood Spars / The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Cert...
6
And the worst of it is that everybody is so beastly contented.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
7
This beastly fur coat keeps me in a state of chronic perspiration.
Peter Ruff and the Double Four
8
She had, in a state of beastly inebriation, fallen into the fire.
Wild Western Scenes / A Narrative of Adventures in the Western W...
9
So I doubt if I touched two drops of the beastly stuff.
Main Street
10
And it is beastly cheek of him to suppose that it can.
The Farringdons
11
Fact is, I hate the place myself-thewhole beastly house I hate.
The Belfry
12
No, the beastly blackamoor had done the business on his own account.
The Adventures of Captain Horn
13
I wish that beastly hall wasn't in the way ahead of us.
The Palace of Darkened Windows
14
And what would be that beastly antidote your men shot into me?'
Non-Stop
15
If I knew where to find a magistrate in this beastly place,-
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1
16
Italy was beastly, and Florence station is the centre of beastly Italy.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Beastly across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare