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animalistically

animalistically adverb: in an animalistic way; bestially; in the manner of an animal.

Adverb

animalistically (comparative more animalistically, superlative most animalistically)

  1. In an animalistic way; bestially; in the manner of an animal.
    • [...] “and in general wantonly pursues pleasure in an animal fashion in all of his sexual activities,” or it means, “he pursues pleasure animalistically with women, begetting children, and also animalistically with men, having sex for pleasure only,” [...]2000, Martha C. Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
    • [...] of a dehumanizing bestiality comes in the off-hand aside that types the Kalahari Bushman as an animalistically undisciplined alien [which] speaks for an emotively entrenched scale of prejudice defined around the stigma of subhumanness.2011, K. M. Newton, Modernizing George Eliot, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 149

Forms of animalistically

comparativemore animalistically
superlativemost animalistically

Origin of animalistically

From animalistic + -ally.

Questions about animalistically

What does animalistically mean?
Animalistically means in an animalistic way; bestially; in the manner of an animal.
What part of speech is animalistically?
Animalistically is an adverb.

Words near animalistically in the dictionary

  1. animalising
  2. animalism
  3. animalisms
  4. animalist
  5. animalistic
  6. animalistically
  7. animalists
  8. animalitarianism
  9. animalities
  10. animality
  11. animalivore

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