(old-fashioned, BrE, informal) unpleasant
SYNHORRIBLE, NASTY:
Don't be so beastly to him! * This car's been nothing but trouble-I wish I'd never bought the beastly thing!
beastliness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for beastly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is beastly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, beastly is tagged as adjective.
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