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animalistic

/ ˈænɪməˌlɪstɪk /

adjective

She is equally desirous of Levine, as animalistic and eager to consume him while sticky with sanguine fluid.

And I made my movies for men—animalistic scenes, aggressive guys and cute girls, and little plot.

This animalistic behavior is just one dehumanizing effect of the demon that possesses her.

But each government understands at some animalistic level that no electorate will celebrate the consequences of doing too little.

“There was something animalistic about that character,” said Panjabi.

The battle of the rational and spiritual to gain supremacy over the instinctive and animalistic is known to him.

They have no higher conception of life than that which is wholly animalistic.

The earlier phases are crude and animalistic, and involve much resort to physical strife.

Can you look for manliness, for self-respect, and self-control, or anything but animalistic sentimentality?

April 18, 2024petrichor

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