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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "skotski",
"sense": "pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of a beast",
"word": "скотски"
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{
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of a beast",
"word": "bestial"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of a beast",
"word": "animal"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ktēnṓdēs",
"sense": "pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of a beast",
"word": "κτηνώδης"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of a beast",
"word": "bestial"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of a beast",
"word": "beestly"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "živótnyj",
"sense": "pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of a beast",
"word": "живо́тный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zverínyj",
"sense": "pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of a beast",
"word": "звери́ный"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of a beast",
"word": "brùideil"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "paśbik",
"sense": "characterizing the nature of a beast; brutal; filthy",
"word": "পাশবিক"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "haẏōẇani",
"sense": "characterizing the nature of a beast; brutal; filthy",
"word": "হায়ওয়ানী"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zverski",
"sense": "characterizing the nature of a beast; brutal; filthy",
"word": "зверски"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "characterizing the nature of a beast; brutal; filthy",
"word": "garstig"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ktēnṓdēs",
"sense": "characterizing the nature of a beast; brutal; filthy",
"word": "κτηνώδης"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "characterizing the nature of a beast; brutal; filthy",
"word": "bestial"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "characterizing the nature of a beast; brutal; filthy",
"word": "beestly"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "characterizing the nature of a beast; brutal; filthy",
"word": "зверский"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "characterizing the nature of a beast; brutal; filthy",
"word": "brùideil"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otvratitelen",
"sense": "abominable",
"word": "отвратителен"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abominable",
"word": "garstig"
}
],
"word": "beastly"
}
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"English adjectives",
"English adverbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms suffixed with -ly (adjectival)",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/iːstli"
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"t": "beastly"
},
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"name": "noncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "beestachtig",
"t": "beastly"
},
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"name": "noncog"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "biestig",
"t": "beastly"
},
"expansion": "German biestig (“beastly”)",
"name": "noncog"
}
],
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"form": "more beastly",
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"superlative"
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"ref": "1901, The Literary World, volume 63, page 35",
"text": "They have insulted me most beastly. Moreover, they are, everyone of them, black-satan filthmen.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita",
"text": "The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-Laodicean characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beastly hot or blindingly cold upon you, depending on whether your neighbor turned on his cold or his hot to deprive you of a necessary complement in the shower you had so carefully blended.",
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"ipa": "/ˈbiːstli/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːstli"
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