Bestial

//ˈbɛs.ti.əl//

"Bestial" in a Sentence (10 examples)

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

War is a disgusting relic of humanity's bestial past.

Such are the data that clearly show the bestial face of the colonialists, the essence of their "civilizing" activities in the colonies.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

By thee adulterous lust was driven from men / Among the bestial herds to range […]

This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.

His was a bestial face, a face that bore the stamp of Nature's eternal injustice.

Ah, if the invincible forest god of that dead past were but with them now. No longer would there be aught to fear from prowling beasts, or from the bestial Russian.

The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to understand Chewbacca’s bestial warbling.

[…] much must depend upon the way in which bestial are bought or reared, and the state of the markets when they are sold.

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