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BEASTLINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("beastliness" is a kind of...):
nastiness (the quality of being highly unpleasant)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Derivation:
beastly ((informal) very unpleasant)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being deliberately mean
Synonyms:
beastliness; meanness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("beastliness" is a kind of...):
malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)
Derivation:
beastly (resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility)
