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
If I had time, I would gladly go there again for a couple of weeks, to find a little solitude in the Zoological Gardens and to forget somewhat other bestialities.
From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Constance Bache
The reaction against the photographic style, on the other hand, leads to spasmodic efforts to arouse the jaded interest by forced sensationalism, physiological bestialities, and a crude form of the hobgoblin and bogey business.
From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison
