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The main thing that has been achieved by the recent diplomatic maneuvers is what Washington considers to be a more favorable public-relations ambience for making the war bigger, bloodier, and beastlier.

A Special Supplement: Vietnam: How Not to Negotiate Draper, Theodore H. 1967

He scanned Shaftesbury Avenue with a jaundiced eye, and thought that he had never seen a beastlier thoroughfare.

Uneasy Money 1928

I think that I was beastlier than I meant to be, but I am not accustomed to young kids.

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

They saw man working with intellect to bring ruin, and working without intellect to bring something beastlier than man should know.

William Shakespeare John Masefield 1922

Did I not say, when I was arranging that affair of Faust’s, that all Man’s reason has done for him is to make him beastlier than any beast.

Act III 1903

I not say, when I was arranging that affair of Faust's, that all Man's reason has done for him is to make him beastlier than any beast.

Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw 1903

"This is beastly stuff of the doctor's, Chris, it puts my monkey up; I can't help swearing after I've taken it; it's as beastly as a vulgar woman's laugh, and I don't know anything beastlier than that!"

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Glory apart, I could think for a long time without hitting on anywhere beastlier to be except perhaps just the other side of a breastwork thirty yards off where the Bosch has been dropping heavy crumps in threes with monotonous regularity since an indecent hour this morning.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916 Various 1898

My big gripe came at breakfast, when I wished for good coffee and proper jams rather than those beastly mini-pots and mini-butter pats, and even beastlier sachets of mustard.

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