单词 | beastlily |
释义 | beastlilyadv. 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). < |
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