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Definition of In a beastly manner
1. Adverb. In an inhumane manner. "She treated her husband bestially"
Lexicographical Neighbors of In A Beastly Manner
Literary usage of In a beastly manner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"To SLOTTER, rn To make a noise in swallowing food, a duck gobbling ; like to
slabber up, Roxb., Berwicks. ; also, to eat in a beastly manner, like a sow, ..."
2. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral by Mary Wollstonecraft (1891)
"Men are, however, often gratified by this kind of fondness, which is confined in
a beastly manner ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Add to etymon ; noise with the palate, in swallowing food, resembling that of a
duck gobbling ; to slabber to eat in a beastly manner, like a sow, ..."
4. The Bozeman Trail: Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes by Grace Raymond Hebard, Earl Alonzo Brininstool (1922)
"She was treated in a beastly manner by the Cheyennes, and purchased from them
during the winter by Two Face and Black Foot, who compelled her to toil and ..."
5. Pre-Malthusian Doctrines of Population: A Study in the History of Economic by Charles Emil Stangeland (1904)
"... ourselves with pipe and pot, in a beastly manner, sucking smoak and drinking
healths, until death stares many in the face." In A Discourse of Trade unto ..."
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