英:['bi:stlɪnəs]
美:['bistlɪnəs]
英:['bi:stlɪnəs]
美:['bistlɪnəs]
adjective
relating to, characteristic of, or resembling an animal : bestial sense 1 Their languages, with complex clicks, were once dismissed as a guttural farrago of beastly sounds.—Stephen Jay Gould
beastly strength
characterized by cruelty, brutality, or crudeness
Yet this beastly little man was capable of exquisite humor and tenderness.—Edmund Morris
informal extremely unpleasant, disagreeable, or undesirable It took him ages to get the beastly stuff out of his eyes and eyebrows, and as for his beard, he had to cut most of it off.—J. R. R. Tolkien At the beastly hour of 9:40 a.m. we trudged up to our nosebleed seats, wobbling like prizefighters in the final round, for the NFL preseason game between the Chargers and the Denver Broncos …—Gary Smith
beastly weather
monstrously large or powerful Workers with acetylene torches and a beastly contraption called the "dinosaur" are chewing quickly through the rusting old railroad tunnel …—Tim O'Neill
… the staging area was packed with an eclectic mix of vehicles, from humble hatchbacks to beastly trucks.—Lisa Rose
adverb
chiefly British, informal to an extreme and usually unpleasant degree : in an unpleasant or beastly manner… an ideological predisposition to believe the Soviet Union will embrace comity if only Washington doesn't act beastly.—Woody West
"It's no good pretending it isn't an awkward situation," continued Bob, "because it is. Beastly awkward."—P. G. Wodehouse
The first known use of beastly was in the 13th century
beatificadjective
having a blissful appearance
a beatific smile
beatenadjective
worn smooth by passing feet
the beaten path
beastnoun
a four-footed mammal as distinguished from human beings and from lower animals both with and without backbones
a farm animal especially when kept for heavy work
a mean or brutal person
beastly1 of 2adjective
of, relating to, or resembling a beast : bestial
informal disagreeable sense 1, unpleasant
beastly weather
beastly2 of 2adverb
very entry 2 sense 1
a beastly cold day
beastly1 of 2adjective
of, relating to, or resembling a beast : bestial
informal disagreeable sense 1, unpleasant
beastly weather
beastly2 of 2adverb
very entry 2 sense 1
a beastly cold day
1 There’s a reason this beastly, brawny truck is still doing quite well despite being the oldest truck of its type on the market.
2 I would have been a crowned head of beastliness.
3 Of course, a large pickup truck, plus the weight of a battery, gas engine, and fuel tank, likely means the Ramcharger has a beastly curb weight and probably should not just become your primary daily driver.
4 A military historian who has written about many cockpits of savagery — the Spanish Civil War, Stalingrad, Berlin in spring 1945 — Beevor has chronicled much beastliness.
5 The player to watch this year is our beastly wide receiver, Davante Adams.
6 Sony’s answer to the Microsoft Elite Series of controllers is a beastly piece of tech with a textured grip that feels more comfortable to hold during long gaming sessions.
7 There must have been some beastliness in him.
8 As part of the intake stroke, a supercharger pulls and squeezes air into the engine to create that beastly whine.
9 left to shift for himself on an isolated farm, he gradually sank into a beastly, purposeless existence
10 The useful thing about Twitter's bonfire of beastliness is if you tweeted, "In the event of my tragic death, who would be round my house within three hours with a sympathy card?"
11 Dudamel may or may not have meant this as a statement of world affairs, but it could be heard as an impressively nuanced expression of how beauty and beastliness coexist in nature and society.
12 I never knew what mean beastliness there was inside me.
13 No pure woman or man would defile his or her pen with committing to paper the beastliness that follows, and which shows in its nakedness the nature of these animals, travesties made in God's image.
14 In return, Sharon has a snarky but real devotion to Rob, a recovering alcoholic whose literal and stereotypical beastliness is managed by his genuine kindness and gentlemanly respect for his wife and their shared responsibilities.
15 In it, a bloodthirsty, bubonic plague-spreading vampire (Bill Skarsgard) develops a beastly obsession with a young woman (Lily-Rose Depp), causing a series of horrific events.
16 In beastliness I think it surpasses Cologne with its seven p. 78and thirty stenches, or even Bristol or a Welsh town.
17 The blocks were dean—for the sportsmen of those days considered that, if you went in for blood sports, it was your duty to conceal the beastliness with scrupulous care.
18 No. 3 Georgia looked like it intended to follow up on its beastliness of 2017 by remaining beastly in 2018 in its 41-17 ransacking that bummed out the home fans of South Carolina, yet still .
19 With each description from the world’s best players about the beastliness of Augusta National on Thursday — its firmness, its fastness, its fickle wind — Justin Rose’s round gained more shine as it went along.
20 Or, in Karl Marx's words, quoted by Thomson: "Jamaican history is characteristic of the beastliness of the true Englishman."
1 兽性
theroid brutal bestial brute brutality bestiality animality animalism beastly animalistic brutism animal beast brutehood brutalness
6 凶恶
tough vicious brute fell murderous felon villainous hellish bloodthirsty cutthroat ruffian felonious lupine sulphurous truculent demoniac bloodily atrocity blackness enormity villainy blood thirstiness
8 残忍
man bloody brutal cruel fierce butcher grim relentless unnatural ruthless brute fell stony murderous felon inhuman atrocious inhumane merciless bloodthirsty cutthroat barbarous sanguine beastly ghoulish brutish butchery fiendish ruffian remorseless red-handed insensate unmerciful snaky bucko wolfish bloody-minded slaughterous sanguineous dispiteous blackly bloodily gorily atrocity brutality cannibal inhumanity barbarity brutalism bloodiness blood thirstiness iron fisted tigrish savage ferocious barbaric cold-blooded implacable cut-throat tigerish ironfisted butcherly cruelhearted ruthlessly cruelly grimly unmercifully diabolically inhumanely cruelty without mercy
9 污秽
dirty messy filthy obscene unclean profane grubby mucky mangy feculent reechy nastily soil mess contamination muck filth sordor soilure soilage feculence foul lousy untouchable impure dingy sordid grimy squalid scuzzy Augean swinish scuzz hoggish soapless foully impurely squalor filthiness dirtiness sordidness impureness grime begrime
10 粗暴
rough brutal rugged rude stern coarse savage outrageous brute abrupt stormy rowdy sultry surly wanton gruff rambunctious brutish brusque sanguinary yob kickass acerb roughly brazen roughness asperity storminess brusquerie
11 淫猥
12 可厌
annoying cursed bothersome tiresome accursed yucky beastly loathsome fulsome unlovely rebarbative loathly abominably
13 猥亵
low blue raw dirty foul risky naughty filthy obscene shameful indecent shameless sultry lewd racy salacious lascivious bawdy risque prurient ribald smutty indelicate scabrous gamy risqué ithyphallic coprological Fescennine indecently lasciviously foully bawdily ribaldly filth obscenity indecency smut filthiness lasciviousness indelicacy grubbiness salaciousness bawdiness
14 下流
gross nasty spicy rude ripe improper vile vulgar abject scurvy squalid ignoble immodest scurrilous ribald off-color smutty indelicate swinish caddish blackguardly off-colour ithyphallic paltrily grossly indecently meanly vulgarly squalidity impropriety vulgarity meanness lowliness foulness immodesty ribaldry indelicacy scurrility shamefulness ignobility squalidness impudicity sordor off color