bestiality
noun
brutish or beastly character or behavior; beastliness.
bestialities
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pluralof bestiality.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The bestialities of the last War were likewise excoriated by German Artist George Grosz.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bestialities of World War I made the romance and optimism of his work go out of fashion, for that era brought the onslaught of symbolism, Freudian introspection, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stupidity of Claudius is discovered to be astuteness, the bestialities of Nero elegance.
From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross
They walk with God, and the bestialities of us animals are fantastic to them.
From Saint's Progress by John Galsworthy
Was it the phantasm of one of those poor waifs and strays, having all their bestialities and diseases magnified; or was it the spirit of a tree of some unusually noxious nature?
From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell
