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adverb

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Recent Examples of beastly
Adjective
An American Werewolf in London' (1981) American dudes backpacking in England get attacked by a werewolf, one of them becomes a beastly nuisance on the full moon, and things get bloody freaky in old London Town. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 June 2025 To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — Legends of young heroes fighting lions to the death appear in Roman records and artwork, but scant physical evidence of these beastly battles exists. Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
Adverb
Here’s the idea: Carve out some beastly, cramped space inside the kitchen where, in days gone by, customers were prohibited. Louis J. Esterhazy, WWD, 20 Feb. 2025 Taylor Hill/FilmMagic—Getty Images Now 50 and a dad of four, Williams appears to view the only industry he’s ever known as both beautiful and beastly. Olivia-Anne Cleary, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for beastly
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beastly
Adjective
  • Not softly, but with brute force, with grit and toughness, heart to match his hands.
    Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The developers sprinkle puzzle elements into some dungeons while also adding moments where stealth is more useful and efficient than brute force.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Some genres may be extremely violent and gory, so parents may want to consider supervising their children's viewing of films or avoid them altogether.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Grain bins and silos can be extremely deadly if people get trapped inside.
    Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The scene, which was not in Stephenie Meyer's 2008 book that the movie was adapted from, raised eyebrows for its brutal killings of vampires Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli) and Jasper Hale (Jackson Rathbone), as well as werewolves Seth (Booboo Stewart) and Leah Clearwater (Julia Jones).
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In a new era of Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders, the race to own Birmingham’s massive reconstruction project becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Monster has debuted into this very fraught political moment where, despite no evidence showing a link between violence and transness, right-wingers have gone to great pains to paint almost every mass shooter who makes front page news as trans in hopes of stripping trans people of their rights.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • In early 2024, support for Israel’s war was very high, if lower among Democrats.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There are somewhere between 60 million to 100 million feral cats in the United States, rivaling the number of cozy pets.
    Rebecca van Laer September 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The roughly 5-month-old kitten got a fresh start after he and his littermates were found living in a colony of feral cats.
    Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Not terribly long ago, Spanish restaurants were abundant in this part of Manhattan, but a good number have died off in recent years.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Immediate forgiveness – a message of letting go of the anger that comes with being so terribly wronged – has a familiar sound to those who have been following a frighteningly violent news cycle.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • At the time, the fields of primatology, ethology, anthropology, and all of science were incredibly male-dominated.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • And there was Mahab Ghodss, an incredibly powerful and opaque consulting firm run by regime insiders, which drafted the studies for dam projects and lobbied for approval.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • But damn if the Hostmaster General did not then go and do it.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
  • No one gets hour-long lines without damn good BBQ, no matter how inventive the flavors.
    Farhan Mustafa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Beastly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beastly. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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