beastly

adj

1. (UK)Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
2. (UK)Similar to the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of human beings.

   “beastly culture”

3. (UK, dated)Abominable; very unpleasant; hideous.

   “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.”

   ““Yes, I’ve got the most beastly headache.””

   “"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."”

4. (UK, slang)Of computer hardware or motor vehicles etc.: ostentatiously powerful.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

adv

1. (UK)Like a beast; brutishly.

   “Beastly he threwe her downe, ne car'd to spill / Her garments gay with scales of fish that all did fill.”

   “They have insulted me most beastly. Moreover, they are, everyone of them, black-satan filthmen.”

2. (UK, colloquial, dated)Very much; terribly.

   “"I'm beastly sorry, Wynn, old man," he muttered. "I ought to have remembered."”

   “The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-Laodicean characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beastly hot or blindingly cold upon you, depending on whether your neighbor turned on his cold or his hot to deprive you of a necessary complement in the shower you had so carefully blended.”