Adjective
- 1. beastly, hellish, god-awful, unpleasant (vs. pleasant)
- usage: very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"
- 2. beastly, bestial, brute(prenominal), brutish, brutal, inhumane (vs. humane)
- usage: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
Adverb
- 1. beastly
- usage: in a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law"
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