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beastly

adjective

  1. characterized by base/depraved behavior, or by unrestrained indulgence of physical/sensual desires/appetites
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adverb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbiːstli/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English bestely, bestly, equivalent to beast + -ly. Compare West Frisian bistachtich (“beastly”), Dutch beestachtig (“beastly”), German biestig (“beastly”).

  1. Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
  2. Similar to the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of human beings.

    beastly culture

  3. Abominable; very unpleasant; hideous.

    beastly weather

    Stop being so beastly to her!

  4. Of computer hardware or motor vehicles etc.: ostentatiously powerful.

    In addition to a Core i7-860 with a full-sized heatsink and 4GB of DDR3 RAM, the company showed its SUGO SG07 housing today's most beastly graphics card, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970, which is about 30cm long.

    A very big, very black, and very beastly Hummer H2, Spotted in China in in the rain the great city of Zigong in Sichuan Province.

adv

Etymology: From Middle English bestely, bestly, equivalent to beast + -ly. Compare West Frisian bistachtich (“beastly”), Dutch beestachtig (“beastly”), German biestig (“beastly”).

  1. Like a beast; brutishly.

    Beastly he threwe her downe, ne car'd to spill / Her garments gay with scales of fish that all did fill.

    They have insulted me most beastly. Moreover, they are, everyone of them, black-satan filthmen.

  2. Very much; terribly.

    "I'm beastly sorry, Wynn, old man," he muttered. "I ought to have remembered."

    The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-Laodicean characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beastly hot or blindingly cold upon you, depending on whether your neighbor turned on his cold or his hot to deprive you of a necessary complement in the shower you had so carefully blended.