Bestial
Bestial adjective - Having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal.
Usage example: investigators were appalled by the degree of bestial debauchery depicted in the pornographic materials
Sadistic and bestial are semantically related In some cases you can use "Sadistic" instead the word "Bestial" as an adjective or an adverb.
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- Wolfsbane's abusive bigot of a father Reverend Craig's sadistic career came to an end when the brainwashing that he inflicted upon her kicks in, and she mistakes him for the Angel, whom he had ordered her to kill; she lunges at him in her wolf-form, in a bestial state, killing and devouring him.
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