请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 beastlily
释义

beastlilyadv.

Brit. /ˈbiːs(t)lᵻli/, U.S. /ˈbis(t)lᵻli/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: beastly adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < beastly adj. + -ly suffix2. Compare later beastily adv. and see etymological note at that entry.
Somewhat rare.
In a beastly way or manner. Cf. beastly adv., beastily adv.In common with other adverbial forms ending -lily, often avoided.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adverb]
grimc893
sternlyc897
bremeOE
bitterlyc1000
etelichec1175
heterlya1225
felonly1303
asperlyc1314
fellc1330
fellyc1330
cruentlyc1380
beastlyc1390
unmanlyc1454
felonmentc1470
cruelly1487
inhumanly1490
unkindfully?1534
boarishlya1563
savagely1563
tiger-like1576
unhumanly1586
inhumanlike1595
inhumanely1598
immanely1612
savagiously1625
wolvishly1628
beastlilya1631
brutisha1645
truculently1654
tigerously1698
brutally1749
tigerishly1878
a1631 R. Bolton Two Serm. (1635) ii. 61 It is a pittifull thing, when a man will needes thrust into publicke imployments, onely for the gaine and honour, and depend upon others for the discharge of them, or else doe them beastlily.
1736 Counsels of Wisdom II. iii. iii. 372 A Man who has beastlily entertain'd himself like an Atheist at Table, and drowned his Soul and Body with Liquor.., is a shocking Sight.
a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. J. W. von Goethe Scenes from Faust in Posthumous Poems (1824) 396 To live more beastlily [1839 Poet. Wks. beastily] than any beast [Ger. Nur thierischer als jedes Thier zu seyn].
1912 R. Brooke Let. 30 May in R. Brooke & N. Olivier Song of Love (1991) 177 You write rather beastlily about James—rather anyhow, as if the position was that one had to make out he wasn't altogether a worm.
1967 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Apr. 317/2 A pleasing book in that We (a group of blackmailed ordinary people) defeat Them (the semi-official secret organization behaving as beastlily as usual).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
<
adv.a1631
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/3/1 1:05:53