(n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
(n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
(n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
(n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
(n.) A game at cards similar to loo.
(n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(2) In The Girl, the relationship moves from Pygmalion to Beauty and the Beast, before curdling into something more mutually destructive, if not downright abusive.
(3) Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth | Jill Abramson Read more Later in the day, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Trump was due to visit Siemens’ Technische Akademie, a vocational training college, and US architect Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial.
(4) In a long piece on the Daily Beast, he also revealed that Mia Farrow had granted permission for her image to be used in film clips honouring Allen during the Golden Globes, and expressed surprise at her Twitter reaction.
(5) The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth and light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done, and rightly done.
(6) What was shocking about the first Wall Street was how close it came to being a wildlife documentary, with the director bringing us rare footage of the strange new beasts now stalking Gotham City.
(7) The Daily Beast asked the Trump campaign about a story from Harry Hurt III’s 1993 book The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, in which Trump allegedly tore out clumps of then-wife Ivana Trump’s hair before allegedly sexually assaulting her in a way that, according to Hurt, she characterized to friends as “rape,” later clarifying that she felt “violated” but not in “a literal or criminal sense.” It’s depressing to consider how little difference this might make in the GOP race.
(8) On the ground beneath their feet lived salamanders, amphibians and plenty of mammals, including the badger-sized beast, repenomamus, which dined on dead dinosaurs.
(9) But he warned that the BBC’s in-house production department was an “unwieldy beast” and said it would have to adapt if it was going to compete head to head with independent producers.
(10) 12 May 2015 The federal government delivers its second federal budget, a totally different beast from its first.
(11) While Umunna, 36, may not quite have reached the heights of a Hezza political big beast, he is certainly one of the most prominent members of Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet and on first-name terms with senior political figures in the EU and the US.
(12) Now the beast of full-blooded Euroscepticism is unleashed | Matthew d’Ancona Read more Fallon told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4: “I don’t know of any member of Nato that wants us to leave the EU, because the EU can do things Nato can’t.
(13) A sign around its head reads: "I am the climate beast and I am hungry."
(14) The former Labour prime minister, who towards the end of his time in office in June 2007 branded the media as being like a "feral beast tearing people and reputations to bits" in a speech, said on Monday morning he now felt more comfortable talking about the sometimes unassailable power that newspapers hold without responsibility.
(15) He and Farook were close, according to a friend who spoke with the Daily Beast , and liked to work on old cars and practice shooting together.
(16) In fact, I think critics have missed the point about Kafka's talking beasts: like the nameless ape in the story "Report to the Academy", they are absolutely human, and the means by which Kafka asserts that it is our inclinations to the political and the transcendent that must always be provisional, while our physicality cannot be brooked.
(17) This kept the biggest beasts out of the race, and thus made him unstoppable.
(18) At the other end of the scale, festival indie favourite Beasts of the Southern Wild, and its child star Quvenzhané Wallis, came away empty-handed.
(19) If the beast has now been tamed to the point where it can be put to sleep quietly (albeit over a decade or so), the government has a chance to address its next problems.
(20) At the same time in serological examination (in the antibody neutralization test) of bird pellets, 52 mummified cadavers, and 34 excretion samples of mammalian beasts of prey collected in Armenia (its central and North-Western part) in 1973 the antigen of tularemia microbe was revealed in 73, 8, and 3, and of plagye--in 42, 5, and 1 cases, respectively.
Bestial
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
(a.) Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual.
(n.) A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial.
Example Sentences:
(1) No reports of bestiality involving the use of animal tissue for erotic purposes have been published.
(2) Papers they have co-authored give a flavour of their stance: "If relativist philosophy is acceptable, then sadomasochism, bestiality and self-abuse are to be considered as wholesome activities," runs one.
(3) Their rare and spectacular characteristics have for long been considered as divine punishment for the sin of adultery or bestiality or on the other hand as a mark of fertility and a gift from God.
(4) Cory Bernardi has likened homosexuality to bestiality – and the Liberal party’s response was to give him the number one spot on the South Australian Senate ticket at last year’s federal election, ensuring he would be re-elected.
(5) In parliament he warned of “an army that is becoming bestial”, one “an army that has lost its moral backbone”.
(6) In an interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity last year, Carson grouped gay marriage with bestiality and pedophilia.
(7) Bernardi is a staunch opponent of marriage equality and resigned as shadow parliamentary secretary in 2012 after making comments linking same-sex marriage and bestiality.
(8) Theorising about Frozen, talkshow host Kevin Swanson said satan had infiltrated the studio in the mid-1980s with the intention of indoctrinating preschoolers in homosexuality and bestiality.
(9) Since the 1st penal reform law of June 25, 1969 has come into force the section 175 b StGB (Penal Code) was canceled without substitution, and bestiality is no longer liable to prosecution.
(10) A great gangster movie must edit out any moments of bestial violence.
(11) Why, just a month ago as part of her election campaign, did she visit the notoriously homophobic Jesus House , a fundamentalist church that equates homosexuality with bestiality and has supported exorcisms to rid people of same-sex attraction?
(12) Police also found images of child abuse and bestiality at Wilson's home in Romford, Essex.
(13) En route we've had Rick Santorum insisting that he does not equate homosexuality with bestiality – or, as he memorably phrased it, " man on dog " – and that when he had appeared to make a disobliging reference to black people , he had in fact been speaking of "blah" people.
(14) We were told gay marriage was the slippery slope to polygamy, bestiality and incest.
(15) There are polysexual orgies, incest, bestiality, semi-pubescent sex – polite softcore it is not.
(16) He tweeted a link to a Times diary story which reported that he was told: "No 10 says it has enough problems with the party in getting equal marriage through without you advocating bestiality," adding the comment: "Oh dear.
(17) He discusses the danger of blackmail and false accusations and the punishment of lesbian acts, bestiality, and masturbation.
(18) It's ignominious, bestial," Leila de Lima, who chairs the Philippines independent commission on human rights, told the Associated Press.
(19) The bestiality accumulated over years,” said journalist Konstantinov.
(20) The guilt feelings were reinforced by Hakims and lay literature which stress more on masturbation (79%) and spermatorrhoea (60%) and not extra-marital intercourse (52%) or bestiality (39%).