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Meanings of bestial in English

Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility.

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Usage of bestial in English
1
In a short time, I'm going to degenerate into a bestial state.
Moonburn
2
Our wills decide for us; not the bestial aim, nor the instinct.
The Original Fables of La Fontaine / Rendered into English Prose...
3
They ne be not full reasonable, but they be simple and bestial.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
4
Somehow the bestial countenance had taken on an attraction of its own.
The Blazed Trail
5
Hieronymus is likened to the Centaurs on account of his bestial passion.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
6
Pungent smells and frightening, bestial sounds that do not come from animals.
The Sandman Book of Dreams
7
Perhaps a gross, bestial spirit is masked by her oval Madonna-like face.
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
8
The men's faces were human no longer, but livid with bestial passion.
Trumps
9
Only its face was bestial: what of it there was left, anyway.
The skein of lament
10
Are thieving, and lying, and looting, and bestial talk very bad things?
With Rimington
11
He could almost feel a bestial growl strain to leave his throat.
The Wolf’s Hour
12
A bestial grunt jerked out of her throat every second or two.
Proven guilty
13
Very faintly, I could scent the heavy, bestial stink of a troll.
Proven guilty
14
The sudden bestial smell hit him like a jellyfish stinging his nose.
Villain
15
This was the one thing that consoled me in the whole bestial experience.
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
16
By comparison, succumbing to passion is bestial and ultimately often unsatisfactory.
The Irish Times
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