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What is the noun for beastly?

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beast
  1. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
  2. (more specific)  A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
  3. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
  4. (slang) A large or impressive thing or structure.
  5. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
  6. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
  7. A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “We cannot let the beast roam unchecked on this side of the river. We must track it down.”
      “The tender scene made her more determined to help find this inhuman beast and stop him from shattering any more lives.”
      “What kind of beast would I be if I left you all alone, bleeding and hurt, in that alley?”
bestiality
  1. (archaic) A status of lower animal.
  2. (archaic) An animal-like instinct or behaviour.
  3. (archaic) A mark, trait, or emblem of a beast.
  4. Sexual activity between a human and another animal species.
  5. Bestial nature, savagery, inhumanity, like (or akin to) an animal's.
  6. (dated) Any abstract entity similar to a beast.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “While bestiality can refer to a state of being that is characteristic of a feral animal or beast, it is important to note that in most contexts, bestiality commonly refers to the act of engaging in sexual relations with animals.”
      “His brutal and bestiality towards his fellow prisoners shocked everyone in the room.”
      “Police arrested him on suspicion of bestiality.”
beastmaster
  1. (video game) A character in video games who fights monsters and other creatures.
  2. (video game) A role-playing video game character class that is able to control beasts or draw upon their aspects or powers.
  3. A fierce wrestler.
bestialism
  1. bestiality (sexual intercourse between human and animal)
  2. bestialness; quality of being bestial or subhuman
bestialization
  1. the state or process of turning bestial; depravation, corruption, degradation, dehumanization
beasting
  1. (Britain, military, slang) The imposition of arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A few months of intensive beasting from Marty has changed all of that, though.”
      “They trained hard but their week was more about bonding than beasting.”
beastlyhead
  1. (obsolete) The character or quality of a beast; beastliness.
beastdom
beastishness
  1. The state or quality of being beastish.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The wrestler's incredible strength and aggressive fighting style showcased the true beastishness he possessed in the ring.”
beastlihood
beastings
  1. Alternative spelling of beestings (kind of milk)
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Pte Jones, from Aberdare, and his comrade claimed they found repeated beastings unbearable.”
      “We can only hope the Army will examine the practice of unofficial punishment exercises, so-called beastings, as well.”
      “After that, I was constantly getting picked on during parade and was sent for beastings for the state of my kit, even though there was nothing wrong with it.”
beasthood
  1. The property or state of being a beast.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Her pet has sunk back into beasthood, and she, too, has suffered a transmutation.”
      “He revealed his beasthood only in rare moments of absolute cruelty.”
beasty
  1. Alternative form of beastie
  2. Examples:
    1. “I bought a couple of pots and some wire from an electronics shop in Swindon, got the soldering iron out, and soon had the beasty going.”
      “Look a little more closely at the picture and you see that those two dark beasty shapes beside the woman are pigs, rooting in.”
      “Over the years — I'm 39 — my arms have grown too long, my thighs too thick, my barrel chest too beasty.”
beastliness
  1. The state of being beastly.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He needs Belle's help to tame his beastliness and show his sweet side.”
      “The beastliness of the famine caused immense suffering and despair among the people.”
      “Nevertheless, Sufiya's suppressed feelings eventually surface, and her childlike beauty gives way to beastliness.”
beastie
  1. (informal) Beast, animal.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This voracious beastie uses enormous amounts of resources and creates large quantities of pollution.”
      “Move a number-crunching little beastie around a grid to munch on a series of multiples.”
      “House dust mite being the wee beastie that lives in carpets, cushions and bedding, and seems to provoke asthma.”
bestialness
  1. Quality of being bestial.
beastings
  1. plural of beasting
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Pte Jones, from Aberdare, and his comrade claimed they found repeated beastings unbearable.”
      “We can only hope the Army will examine the practice of unofficial punishment exercises, so-called beastings, as well.”
      “After that, I was constantly getting picked on during parade and was sent for beastings for the state of my kit, even though there was nothing wrong with it.”
beastlihead
  1. (obsolete, nonce word) beastliness
beastling
  1. A little beast.
beastmasters
  1. plural of beastmaster
beastlinesses
bestialities
beasthoods
  1. plural of beasthood
beastlings
  1. plural of beastling
beasties
  1. plural of beastie
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “My sister Jill was having nightmares about bugs and beasties and snakes on my behalf.”
      “Japanese beetle traps attract the beasties from miles around, so let your neighbors do the trapping.”
      “It was very nice indeed but I have to fight the urge to be TOO tidy, so the wee bugs and beasties have somewhere to overwinter.”
beasts
  1. plural of beast
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The humble person approaches ravening beasts, and when their gaze rests upon him, their wildness is tamed.”
      “Despite endless trips around the island by boat trying to sneak up on the beasts, they ran off again and again.”
      “What kind of animals, what kind of brute beasts have we created in this land?”
beastes
  1. (archaic) plural of beast
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