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1. The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic bestiality.
2. Beneath its purple pall, the face painted on the canvas could grow bestial, sodden, and unclean.
3. According to legend, the werewolf was able to abandon its human shape and take on a bestial form.
4. He twisted his features into a grimace of heavy bestiality and made a lapping noise with his lips.
5. Erect, haughty, brilliant, he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious archangel.

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 Meanings and Examples of BESTIAL
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bestial
 a.  beastlike; brutal; lacking in intelligence or reason
Classic Sentence:
1  God had allowed him to see the hell reserved for his sins: stinking, bestial, malignant, a hell of lecherous goatish fiends.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  Beneath its purple pall, the face painted on the canvas could grow bestial, sodden, and unclean.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
3  The fantastic character of these instruments fascinated him, and he felt a curious delight in the thought that art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
4  He sets aside all fear of death in any form when opportunity is found for the gratification of his bestial desires.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
5  The face of the male Thenardier presented that expressive fold which accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears there in all its bestial force.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
6  Erect, haughty, brilliant, he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious archangel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
7  The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic bestiality.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
8  He twisted his features into a grimace of heavy bestiality and made a lapping noise with his lips.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  According to legend, the werewolf was able to abandon its human shape and take on a bestial form.