beasty

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Noun

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beasty (plural beasties)

  1. Alternative form of beastie

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beasty (comparative more beasty, superlative most beasty)

  1. Synonym of beastly
    • 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I:
      Such beasty, shameless transformation, By those Welshwomen done, as may not be, Without much shame, retold or spoken of.
    • 2007, Fawzia Karim Firoze, Landmark Judgements on Violence Against Women of Bangladesh, page 256:
      The remnants of extensive mangling of the tender body of the child would reflect the possibility of more than one rapist subjecting the child to such beasty ravishment.
    • 2022, Mckayla Chinyama Queen, Mated to the Golden Dragon 3:
      I approached him and felt my legs begin to wobble and my confidence wear thin, doubt with each step as I became locked into his very beasty eyes.

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