beastie

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 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 From hummingbirds and butterflies to spiders and even lowly beetles, all those wee beasties are part of an intricate web that makes up an ecosystem. Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 11 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for beastie
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Noun
  • How did Indigenous people in North America interpret fossils of dinosaurs and other long-extinct animals?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • His teachers corrected his posture and his hands; the angle of the arms and the way the wrist releases into the top of the drum, or drum head which usually is made from animal skin.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • The creatures are scavengers feeding on the seafloor and plankton as well as algae and waste particles.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Then, once your stay is over, guests hop right back on that glacier ferry for one more magical ride back to real life, but not before all those arctic creatures come out to wave goodbye.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Beastie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beastie. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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