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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
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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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