Definitions
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- adjective Like a beast.
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- adjective Resembling a
beast or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was said to be changed—his beastlike nature even more dominant.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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The Horde vampires, some demons, and most of the more beastlike beings aligned with the Pravus.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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The Horde vampires, some demons, and most of the more beastlike beings aligned with the Pravus.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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A cruel, coarse, filthy and otherwise beastlike person.
Michealene Cristini Risley: Godwin's The Fear a Brilliant Witness to Mugabe's Continued Massacre of Zimbabweans Michealene Cristini Risley 2011
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He was said to be changed—his beastlike nature even more dominant.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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With his harsh, beastlike voice, he rasped, “Woman, you are everything to me!”
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010
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Tanis started to speak, but his faltering words were submerged in an agonized, inarticulate roar; a roar of mingled fear and terror and rage that was so beastlike, it wrenched everyone's thoughts from the dragons.
Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010
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The beginning and end of political evolution is marked by, in Walbank's words, "beastlike behavior."
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He cocked his head, almost beastlike, the woman recalls, and fled down the hill.
Is God Listening? 2008
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Its central characters are the innocent young son of a king and a hairy, beastlike man who lives deep in the forest.
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