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
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".
Source: Wrong Insult Offence
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Rough and Beastly. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/beastly/rough
Beastly & Rough. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/beastly/rough>.
Rough or Beastly. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/beastly/rough.
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