beasty

English

Noun

beasty (plural beasties)

1. Alternative form of beastie

Adjective

beasty (comparative more beasty, superlative most beasty)

1. Synonym of beastly
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I:

     Such beasty, shameless transformation, By those Welshwomen done, as may not be, Without much shame, retold or spoken of.

   • 2007, Fawzia Karim Firoze, Landmark Judgements on Violence Against Women of Bangladesh, page 256:

     The remnants of extensive mangling of the tender body of the child would reflect the possibility of more than one rapist subjecting the child to such beasty ravishment.

   • 2022, Mckayla Chinyama Queen, Mated to the Golden Dragon 3:

     I approached him and felt my legs begin to wobble and my confidence wear thin, doubt with each step as I became locked into his very beasty eyes.

Derived terms

• beastily

 

Anagrams

• Batesy, Bateys, Beatys, Eastby, bestay