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How to use beastly in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective, adverb

Beastly means pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast. Example: “Stop being so beastly to her!”

Examples of beastly by meaning

adjectiveAbominable; very unpleasant; hideous.

  • Stop being so beastly to her!
  • “Yes, I’ve got the most beastly headache.”1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 58
  • "If you saw the care she takes over hoisting her beastly old carcass up and down those stairs, you could make a sure bet against her having another accident there."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 165

adjectiveOf 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.2010 January 11, Matthew DeCarlo, “Silverstone mini-ITX case can fit Radeon HD 5970”, in TechSpot
  • 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.2014, March 21, Tycho de Feijter, “Hummer H2 is a Big Black Beast in the Rain in China”, CarNewsChina.com
  • Huawei’s Mate 20 phones have instantly become the best iPhone XS rivals out there, at least on paper, and the high-end model is easily the most beastly Android phone the world has seen so far.2018 October 16, Chris Smith, “Huawei just unveiled the most beastly Android phone the world has ever seen”, in BGR

adverbLike a beast; brutishly.

  • They have insulted me most beastly.1901, The Literary World, volume 63, page 35

adverbVery much; terribly.

  • "I'm beastly sorry, Wynn, old man," he muttered.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards...

More sentences with beastly

  • You mean you've been up here in all this beastly mud and oomska without Wellingtons?1986, Bruce Robinson, Withnail & I (screenplay). From the entry oomska
  • "Never mind the cigar," said his dudeship; "I can't smoke the beastly things.1976, Comments on Etymology - Volumes 27-29, page 40. From the entry dudeship
  • In the meanwhile on quite a different front we are beginning to attack our ineffective and beastly hospital.1953, Humphry Osmond, chapter 1953, in Cynthia Carson Bisbee et al., editors, Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and…. From the entry Augean stables
  • Nasty little green things that look like lice will probably appear — beastly, soft, smushy aphids they are.1910, Grace Tabor, Gardner Callahan Teall, The Garden Primer. From the entry smushy
  • Today the beastly boat is level at last and the sun’s out and we have all been jawing about what to do.1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998. From the entry jaw
  • Human beings were cruel and beastly.1932, Terence Hanbury White, They Winter Abroad, Viking Press, page 242. From the entry undictating
  • Without any ceremony the near man let drive at my throat with one of those beastly wavy daggers they go in for.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry near
  • “Enough to make a man morbid, to be stalked by beastly journalists and stared at by gaping moon-faced idiots, wherever he goes!”1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 127. From the entry morbid
  • “Enough to make a man morbid, to be stalked by beastly journalists and stared at by gaping moon-faced idiots, wherever he goes!1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 127. From the entry moon-faced
  • Well, I worked like old boots; and all through the beastly long term I went on steadily creeping ahead of those two.1905, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, page 639. From the entry like old boots

Meaning of beastly

  1. adjective Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
  2. adjective Similar to the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of human beings.
  3. adjective Abominable; very unpleasant; hideous.

Full definition of beastly

Questions about beastly in a sentence

How do you use beastly in a sentence?
Beastly is used as an adjective and adverb. For example: “Stop being so beastly to her!”
What is a short sentence with beastly?
“Human beings were cruel and beastly.”
What does beastly mean?
Beastly means pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.

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