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Meaning of animalistically | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C2

Definitions

In an animalistic way; bestially; in the manner of an animal.

Equivalents

Examples

“[...] “and in general wantonly pursues pleasure in an animal fashion in all of his sexual activities,” or it means, “he pursues pleasure animalistically with women, begetting children, and also animalistically with men, having sex for pleasure only,” [...]”
“[...] of a dehumanizing bestiality comes in the off-hand aside that types the Kalahari Bushman as an animalistically undisciplined alien [which] speaks for an emotively entrenched scale of prejudice defined around the stigma of subhumanness.”
“She'd been exhausted and drunk even before the call. Then three hours and a magnum later, out in the cold, her melting brain had animalistically forced her to stay conscious so she wouldn't fall over and die in the snow.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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