beastly 
1. very unpleasant - hellish weather - stop that god-awful racket • Syn: hellish, god-awful • Similar to: unpleasant • Derivationally related forms: beastliness 2. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility - beastly desires - a bestial nature - brute force - a dull and brutish man - bestial treatment of prisoners • Syn: bestial, brute, brutish, brutal • Similar to: inhumane • Derivationally related forms: brutalize (for: brutal), bestialize (for: bestial), beast (for: bestial), bestiality (for: bestial), beast, beastliness
in a beastly manner - she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law
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