Beastly and Rough

Beastly

Beastly adjective - Having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal.

Rough and beastly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rough" instead an adjective "Beastly".

Nearby Words: beast, beastliness

Rough

Rough adjective - Covered with or as if with hair.

Beastly and rough are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Beastly" instead an adjective "Rough".

Both words in one sentence

  • In McAuslan In The Rough one of the pipe-sergeants is recalling a heroic predecessor; Piper Findlater, who earned a VC on the Afghan border when he stuck to his task under fire and wounded because, he said, he didn't want his regiment to be beaten by a pack of "beastly niggers".
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