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Adjective: beastly (beastlier,beastliest)  beestlee
  1. Very unpleasant
    - hellish, god-awful
     
  2. Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
    "beastly desires"
    - bestial, brute, brutish, brutal
Adverb: beastly  beestlee
  1. In a beastly manner
    "she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law"

Derived forms: beastlier, beastliest

See also: beast, beastliness, inhumane, unpleasant

Encyclopedia: Beastly