bestially


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Synonyms for bestially

in an inhumane manner

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Those who tried to cross the borders were bestially treated and many times were used as an example for the rest of the people; but it was in vain.
Then there are those endless surveys suggesting that the great British public is bestially stupid and recognises the name of Churchill only as a nodding insurance mascot.
Two of them [Andrei Shubin and Fedor Uren] were beaten so bestially that even the authorities were shocked and the sentry is to be courtmartialed.
My murdering a dozen bestially vicious people would result in a greater balance of virtue over vice and thus would promote virtue; according to Virtue Promotion my actions are right, but of course they are not, so Virtue Promotion must be false.
BRAINTEASERS 1 BESTIALLY KEEN RICH (TV presenter) 2 VICTIM ENRICHES (Fleetwood Mac woman) 3 HEROIC, RUINOUS THUG (Olympic 400m champion) INITIALLY YOURS Which film, TV programme or musical number do these initials stand for?
(24) In April 1944, Kiev oblast leaders, reporting to Stalin on their successes in collecting money for the Defense Fund, used an evasive turn of phrase: "The Germans destroyed Kiev, bestially shot and tortured to death about 200,000 peaceful townspeople in the Gestapo's torture chambers." (25)
"Two young men mistakenly identified by the attackers as police informers were murdered, one of them most bestially in front of his family." The raiders overran the 18th Mile police station, lined up the constables on duty and robbed them of their possessions, shot and killed the sergeant in charge, wounded "several" constables, and took all the weapons from the stations' armory.
We'll also pay for the investigations and the courts-martial, and we'll pay compensation to those so bestially abused.