She treated her husband bestially. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : the belief that a person could assume bestial form after death; the bestial signs of the zodiac. ,bestial treatment of prisoners. From Dictionary.com.
Her mother and brother were bestially tortured and killed by the military. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Peace Prize 1992 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Many sottish-looking, or if not sottish with the beery texture of those whose only recreation is to be bestially merry at the drink-shop. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
There we slept in the hall before the contented faces of some fine French pictures -- or the majority of them, -- the rest were bestially slashed. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
Students were led to administer what they thought were "deadly" electric shocks to their colleagues or to treat them bestially in simulated prisons. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema] Reference
Two or three of them to one cup, they greedily and bestially poured neat wine into their insatiable bellies which had the appearance of bloated goatskins. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: IDIOCENTRISM.] Reference
German fury spent itself most bestially during the abominable. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort] Reference
Once I was in love with a grande dame, bestially in love, dog-like. From Wordnik.com. [Redemption and two other plays] Reference
The foundations of their life are rotten-utterly and bestially rotten. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Deodars] Reference
His fist landed full on the neck below the ear; Garman grunted bestially and pitched forward on his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Plunderer] Reference
That on my birth have smiled, "said Lord Peter," and taught me to be bestially impertinent when I choose. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Body]
Who made it to be like that, a bestial part of the body able to understand bestially and desire bestially?. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
Yet when we look at the Eskimos from another point of view we find them horribly and bestially unaesthetic. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference
Italians arrived who had been, in the doctor's words, "bestially maltreated at Zala-Egerseg by the Magyars.". From Wordnik.com. [The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2] Reference
He held his course to the door they had just quitted, then as he turned he coughed bestially, spitting out a mouthful of blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Spoilers] Reference
Blood was trickling thinly from his lips; he spat bestially over Trevison's shoulder in a clinch, and tried to sweep the latter from his feet. From Wordnik.com. ['Firebrand' Trevison] Reference
The country between Marne and Meuse is one of the regions on which German fury spent itself most bestially during the abominable September days. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting France] Reference
They were political in nature, often in verse, insulting in treatment, and mixed with a crass obscenity at which the dismal multitude laughed bestially. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference
Moreover, the conviction of not being utterly destroyed returned to him through the sensations of being half-drowned, bestially shaken, and partly choked. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon] Reference
At the last it was even quite brutal -- bestially different from anything I had imagined -- and I had imagined many ways -- while I had control of the show. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
To one who has long lived outside the creeds, and that not ungodly, still less bestially, it is no light matter to subject attitude of mind and daily habit to distinct rule. From Wordnik.com. [The Far Horizon] Reference
He stood opposite her, his hands on the table as he leaned toward her, grinning at her, brutally and bestially, and pausing so as to prolong his enjoyment of her predicament. From Wordnik.com. [The Boss of the Lazy Y] Reference
With this filth, Scalzi’s unabashedly and unrepentantly displays his disgusting Midwestern preference for bestially. From Wordnik.com. [The Official “Win a Copy of Coffee Shop” Contest: Your Scathing Book Review « Whatever] Reference
She was bestially asphyxiated. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Anyway back to me ... http://www. libdemvoice.org/almost-bestially-stupid-top-torys-verdict-on-islington-residents-677. html. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-15] Reference
Paul, they're after you ... http://www. libdemvoice.org/almost-bestially-stupid-top-torys-verdict-on-islington-residents-677. html. From Wordnik.com. [Hatfield Girl Shock Revelations] Reference
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