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# beastly

adjective (beastlier, beastliest)

«beastly» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (informal, British, old-fashioned) Beastly means very unpleasant, nasty or annoying. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/#m1)
2. Beastly can also mean cruel or unkind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/#m2)

### In the lessons

in stories, a remark or a tale that someone finds unpleasant to hear

### Examples

- It's a beastly day, cold and wet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/#x1)
- That was a beastly thing to say. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/#x2)
- The beastly stuff tasted awful. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/#x3)
- He was in a beastly mood all morning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «beastly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«beastly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/beastly.html) on Mova free.