beastly – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of beastly

Adjective: beastly

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativebeastlier
Superlativebeastliest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore beastly
Superlativemost beastly

Sample Sentences

  • beastly culture
  • beastly weather
  • Stop being so beastly to her!
  • And all the time, whenever we went to the Cedars, there was all sorts of silly fuss going on about the beastly wedding; boxes coming from London with hats and jackets in, and wedding presents—all glassy and silvery, or else brooches and chains—and clothes sent down from London to choose from. [1904, E[dith] Nesbit, “(please specify the page)”, in New Treasure Seekers, London: Ernest Benn, →OCLC:]
  • “Yes, I’ve got the most beastly headache.” [1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 58:]
  • "If you saw the care she takes over hoisting her beastly old carcass up and down those stairs, you could make a sure bet against her having another accident there." [1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 165:]
  • In addition to a Core i7-860 with a full-sized heatsink and 4GB of DDR3 RAM, the company showed its SUGO SG07 housing today's most beastly graphics card, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970, which is about 30cm long. [2010 January 11, Matthew DeCarlo, “Silverstone mini-ITX case can fit Radeon HD 5970”, in TechSpot:]
  • A very big, very black, and very beastly Hummer H2, Spotted in China in in the rain the great city of Zigong in Sichuan Province. [2014, March 21, Tycho de Feijter, “Hummer H2 is a Big Black Beast in the Rain in China”, CarNewsChina.com]
  • Huawei’s Mate 20 phones have instantly become the best iPhone XS rivals out there, at least on paper, and the high-end model is easily the most beastly Android phone the world has seen so far. [2018 October 16, Chris Smith, “Huawei just unveiled the most beastly Android phone the world has ever seen”, in BGR:]

Adjectives inflected like beastly

snubby, snithy, snorty, snoopy, sainty, screwy, scowly, schizy, smacky, slimsy, slanty, slaggy, songly, soothy, shysty, shiply, skeezy, beastly, yearny, whip-creamy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

From Middle English bestely, bestly, equivalent to beast + -ly. Compare West Frisian bistachtich (“beastly”), Dutch beestachtig (“beastly”), German biestig (“beastly”).