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bestial
(redirected from bestializing)

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bes·tial  (bschl, bs-)
adj.
1. Beastly.
2. Marked by brutality or depravity.
3. Lacking in intelligence or reason; subhuman.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin bstilis, from Latin bstia, beast.]

bestial·ly adv.

bestial [ˈbɛstɪəl]
adj
1. brutal or savage
2. sexually depraved; carnal
3. lacking in refinement; brutish
4. of or relating to a beast
[from Late Latin bestiālis, from Latin bestia beast]
bestially  adv

Bestial collective term for domestic animals, 1393; replaced by cattle in the 17th century.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.bestial - resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
inhumane - lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion; "humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used"

bestial
adjective brutal, low, animal, gross, savage, beastly, primitive, degraded, sensual, vile, sordid, barbaric, inhuman, depraved, carnal, brutish, barbarous, scungy (Austral. & N.Z.), beastlike the bestial conditions into which the city has sunk
Translations
bestial [ˈbestɪəl] ADJbestial
bestial [ˈbɛstiəl] adj (= brutish) [behaviour, situation] → bestial(e)
bestial
adj acts, crueltybestialisch, tierisch; person, look, appearance (= cruel)brutal; (= carnal)tierisch
bestial [ˈbɛstɪəl] adjbestiale
bestial [ˈbɛstɪəl] adjbestiale


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The elder prisoner's didactic mission is to impart to Procter how black men's habitual criminality and white men's persistent "rescuing" of them is part of a systemic bestializing that denies them agency and selfhood--a vicious cycle of sociopathic black behavior that not only is self-denigrating, but also self-aggrandizing for whites, whose own collective identity is concretized in designating black men as feral and other.
 
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