bestial

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  1. adjective Beastly.
  2. adjective Marked by brutality or depravity.
  3. adjective Lacking in intelligence or reason; subhuman.

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  • Though for the most part appropriately bestial, they are led by an uber-Morlock portrayed by Jeremy Irons who, done up as an albino with an augmented spinal cord protruding from his skin, has now added an inglorious footnote to a generally illustrious career. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 02 - August 2002
  • I cannot conceive what people at the North mean by speaking of the negroes as a bestial or brutal race. —  Army Life in a Black Regiment
  • The face peering from the scarlet hood was utterly bestial, and yet Murilo realized that Nabonidus spoke truth when he said that Thak was not wholly a beast. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • To me it implies a bestial, slobbering sort of drunkenness, which wasn't quite how it had seemed when I was celebrating Yuletide with family and friends. —  NYT > Opinion
  • Pop sham Britney Spears has been forced to reveal sordid accounts of her filth infested bestial orgies with non-consenting farmyard animals & even a few endangered species such as the Red Bearded Clam after leaked material appeared on the Web. —  TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
 

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inhuman ·  brutish ·  deprave ·  feral ·  murderous ·  hateful ·  impure ·  wanton ·  barbarous ·  bloodthirsty ·  fiendish ·  senseless
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin bēstiālis, from Latin bēstia, beast.

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  1. from Latin bestialis, from bestia, beast: see beast.
 

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/ˈbɛstʃɪəl/
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