Meaning & use
Bestial
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Savagely cruel or depraved; resembling or characteristic of a beast rather than a human.
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The soldiers were accused of bestial acts against captured civilians.
Critics called the villain's rage bestial, stripped of all reason.
A note on using this word
From Latin "bestia" (beast); often used to condemn behavior as beneath human dignity rather than to describe actual animals.
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