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Meanings of bestiality in English

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bestialidade
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bestialitat

Sexual activity between a person and an animal.

        bestialidade

        Practice of sexual activity between humans and non-human animals, criminalised in many jurisdictions and of dubious ethics.

              Usage of bestiality in English
              1
              The rules for membership are simple: no bestiality and no underage models.
              Wired
              2
              One of the researchers said Burke once showed her a bestiality video.
              Radio NZ
              3
              The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic bestiality.
              Les Misérables
              4
              One book included depictions of bestiality, according to stipulations in Handley's plea deal.
              Wired
              5
              Never have I seen features so deeply marked with all bestiality and cruelty.
              Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
              6
              Not even the bestiality of the allusion could bring him back to earth.
              Martin Eden
              7
              What affected me was the utter, stupid bestiality of the affair.
              The Mutiny of the Elsinore
              8
              Bologna was full of gloom and grime-thebestiality there was untamed.
              Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 / Little Jou...
              9
              Just look around you-at the bestiality of the human race.
              Cara mia - book one of the immortyl revolution
              10
              Bloated faces glowered through the open doors-theirhumanity sunk away into mere bestiality.
              Trumps
              11
              Their brutality- Iwouldnot and did not shy from the term bestiality-wasastonishing.
              Cauldron of Ghosts
              12
              Wilson's past convictions include rape, bestiality, stupefying and ill-treatment of children.
              Radio NZ
              13
              The disreputable line is Zolaesque bestiality, and forced, unreal, unlovely, and hysterical sensationalism.
              Studies in Early Victorian Literature
              14
              And all around them, the bestiality of the night rises on tenebrous wings.
              Salem’s Lot
              15
              Think of the drunkenness, the devilry, the bestiality that you and I saw!
              The Pomp of Yesterday
              16
              Were they a sudden reversion of an entire nation to bestiality?
              History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's...
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