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beastliness

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beast·ly  (bstl)
adj. beast·li·er, beast·li·est
1. Of or resembling a beast; bestial.
2. Very disagreeable; unpleasant.
adv. Chiefly British
To an extreme degree; very.
beastli·ness n.
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Noun1.beastliness - the quality of being deliberately mean
meanness
malevolency, malice, malevolence - the quality of threatening evil
2.beastliness - unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather
nastiness - the quality of being unpleasant; "I flinched at the nastiness of his wound"
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
Translations
beastliness [ˈbiːstlɪnɪs] N → bestialidad f
beastliness
n (inf) → Scheußlichkeit f, → Garstigkeit f; (of person, conduct also) → Gemeinheit f, → Ekligkeit f (inf)


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But if I find them giving themselves airs, or monopolizing my father, or at all ill-treating him, or worrying him with their artistic beastliness, I intend to put my foot down, yes, firmly.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
Fielding and Smollett could portray the beastliness of their day in the beastliest language; we have plenty of foul subjects to deal with in our day, but we are not allowed to approach them very near, even with nice and guarded forms of speech.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
And it isn't the beastliness of it that matters most
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