as in animal
one of the lower animals as distinguished from human beings
I've become used to sharing our cabin in the woods with all sorts of little beasties
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Recent Examples of beastie
Most of the remaining beasties now live on remote islands near the equator, and most humans would conveniently like to forget them.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 June 2025
The risks are evident – having these kinds of four-legged beasties roaming free around us without the guardrails they’re programmed with could be – well - pretty chaotic.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
In this movie, their most formidable foes are a hellish bunch of beasties disguised as a rival boy band.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 May 2025
Set in a fictional, secluded land of mountains and lakes, Ochi follows a plucky teen named Yuri (played by Helena Zengel), who’s been raised by her father to fear and hunt the reclusive little beasties called ochi.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2025
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 June 2025
The risks are evident – having these kinds of four-legged beasties roaming free around us without the guardrails they’re programmed with could be – well - pretty chaotic.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
In this movie, their most formidable foes are a hellish bunch of beasties disguised as a rival boy band.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 May 2025
Set in a fictional, secluded land of mountains and lakes, Ochi follows a plucky teen named Yuri (played by Helena Zengel), who’s been raised by her father to fear and hunt the reclusive little beasties called ochi.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beastie
Noun
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Los Angeles County animal services officers recovered approximately 200 ducks from a box truck in Palmdale on Wednesday morning.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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The shelter also had problems serving the existing community, taking in fewer animals due to difficulties moving them through adoption or rescue, and placing greater emphasis on caring for sick or injured animals.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Each envelope containing the clue was inside a box filled with some frightful creature — rats, snakes, a tarantula, millipedes, and cockroaches.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Jan. 2026
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In a first, researchers found a chunk of meat from a woolly rhinoceros — a creature similar in size to modern white rhinoceros, but with a shaggy coat of hair — preserved inside the stomach of one of the pups.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Beastie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beastie. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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