beastly

beastly
    adv 1: in a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her
           mother-in-law"
    adj 1: very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful
           racket" [syn: {beastly}, {hellish}, {god-awful}]
    2: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
       "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull
       and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn:
       {beastly}, {bestial}, {brute(a)}, {brutish}, {brutal}]
    

Beastly \Beast"ly\ (b[=e]st"l[y^]), a.
   1. Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a
      beast.
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            Beastly divinities and droves of gods. --Prior.
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   2. Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the
      nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.
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            The beastly vice of drinking to excess. --Swift.
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   3. Abominable; as, beastly weather. [Colloq. Eng.]
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   Syn: Bestial; brutish; irrational; sensual; degrading.
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205 Moby Thesaurus words for "beastly":
      Adamic, Circean, Draconian, Tartarean, abhorrent, abominable,
      abrupt, aggressive, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic,
      anthropophagous, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, baneful,
      barbaric, barbarous, base, bearish, beastlike, below contempt,
      beneath contempt, bestial, blameworthy, bloodthirsty, bloody,
      bloody-minded, bluff, blunt, bodily, boorish, brash, brusque,
      brutal, brutalized, brute, brutelike, brutish, cannibalistic,
      carnal, carnal-minded, cavalier, churlish, coarse, contemptible,
      crude, cruel, cruel-hearted, crusty, curt, demoniac, demoniacal,
      deplorable, despicable, detestable, devilish, diabolic, dire,
      dirty, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, dumb, earthy, egregious,
      enormous, execrable, fallen, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fetid,
      fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, filthy, flagrant, fleshly, forbidding,
      foul, fulsome, ghastly, grievous, grim, gross, gruff, harsh,
      hateful, heinous, hellish, hideous, hoggish, horrendous, horrible,
      horrid, horrific, horrifying, ignoble, infamous, infernal, inhuman,
      inhumane, instinctive, instinctual, intolerable, lamentable,
      lapsed, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, material, materialistic,
      mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mindless, monstrous, murderous, nasty,
      nauseating, nefarious, noisome, nonrational, nonspiritual,
      notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious,
      offensive, orgiastic, outrageous, physical, piggish, pitiable,
      pitiful, postlapsarian, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent,
      reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rough,
      rude, ruthless, sad, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic,
      savage, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, severe, shabby, shameful,
      sharkish, sharp, shocking, shoddy, short, sickening, slavering,
      snippy, sordid, squalid, stinking, subhuman, surly, swinish,
      terrible, too bad, tragic, truculent, unchristian, uncivil,
      uncivilized, unclean, uncultivated, unhuman, unpleasant, unrefined,
      unspeakable, unspiritual, vicious, vile, villainous, woeful,
      wolfish, worst, worthless, wretched, zoic, zooidal, zoologic