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animalistic

animalistic \animalistic\ adj. 1. of or pertaining to animalism.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
animalistic

1877; see animal (n.) + -istic.

Wiktionary
animalistic

a. In the manner of an animal; savage; untamed.

WordNet
animalistic

adj. of or pertaining to animalism

Usage examples of "animalistic".

The sounds seemed brutish and animalistic to Mavra, but she knew it must be some form of speech.

Seeing her now, with her breasts firm and lush cupped lovingly by their satin curtain, her lusciously long legs peeking out of her transparent skirt, and her femininity barely covered by a teasing scrap of scarlet had made him reel under an onslaught of pure animalistic lust.

Shockingly it seemed as though her animalistic regression momentarily frightened the dogs, and they each backed off long enough to let Rayven gain her feet.

The low animalistic sounds coming from her throat sounded alien to her, but she was thankful for it when the alpha slowly backed down before her.

Sweat beaded upon his brow, and he tried to control the wild urge to thrust with animalistic abandon into her tight sheath.

Surprised cries of male pain followed, as Faith became an animalistic fighting machine.

Only during extreme stress or fury did the animalistic growl vibrate in his chest in such a way.

His hands cupped it, clenching on the rounded curves as an animalistic growl rumbled in his chest.

How many times had she heard knights recounting their battle experiences, only to see their eyes blaze with an animalistic kind of passion?

Men deprived of civilization reverted to the basic, animalistic drives sharpened by necessity.

The years had done nothing to diminish the animalistic quality that radiated from him.

If, as we expect, you use it to dominate and to twist others into animalistic fantasies, then it will prove our own point.

The insane, deformed, animalistic duggers were formed by the same process.

I hardly expect that from themthey are primitive, animalistic thugs, but their leaders are not that stupid.

Burrich still believed that I had succumbed to the Wit, had reverted to an animalistic lifestyle, a beastman living in the woods until the Forged ones attacked and killed me.