animallike

adjective

Definition of animallikenext
as in barbaric

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for animallike
  1. barbaric
  2. uncivilized
  3. barbarous
  4. tacky
  5. inelegant
  6. provincial
  7. unsophisticated
Adjective
  • Sudanese who took the same route with other smugglers say they were subjected to barbaric conditions on the journey.
    Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The two-and-a-half-hour film follows two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow-era Florida.
    Anna Tingley, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024
Definition of barbaric
Adjective
  • Under the Omanis, Zanzibar grew rich selling spices, ivory, and slaves, mostly non-Muslims from the interior, whom the island’s élites derided as washenzi, or uncivilized.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Forcing a woman to choose between jail and carrying her rapist's baby is uncivilized and medieval.
    CNN, CNN, 27 June 2022
Definition of uncivilized
Adjective
  • Treating barbarous body horror as something embedded in us deeper than the mutual love of a partner, especially when it’s done without the theatrical or exploitation trappings, makes for one of the New French Extremity’s most troubling works.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
  • How does Reed manage to revisit some of the world’s most barbarous acts without succumbing to despair?
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of barbarous
Adjective
  • Alexis Couture has the idea to throw a tacky bridesmaid dress party, and that is perhaps the first good and original theme that a Housewife has ever thought up on this show.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Nothing says your Southern Mama failed in raising you like a bunch of tacky nonsense coming out of your mouth, especially in front of the preacher's wife.
    Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of tacky
Adjective
  • Jerry’s shock-and-awe ground invasion is positively inelegant compared to Cannon’s method of subjugating populations.
    Katie Rife, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
  • That process is genial and inelegant in equal measure.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of inelegant
Adjective
  • The city held the top spot on a real-time list of the world’s most polluted cities on Sunday after recording its highest-ever pollution reading of 1900 near the Pakistan-India border on Saturday, based on data released by the provincial government and Swiss group IQAir.
    Reuters, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Among others, on July 27, 2018, the DRC High Military Court upheld the conviction of 11 men, including a provincial deputy, found guilty in December 2017 of crimes against humanity for the rape of dozens of young children and girls and for murders in the village of Kavumu, 25 km from Bukavu.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of provincial
Adjective
  • Celebrities who become enamored with cryptocurrency and try to become entrepreneurs tend to end up losing money for their unsophisticated fans.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Critical infrastructure organizations, including hospitals and water systems, are being bombarded with unsophisticated but debilitating cyberattacks.
    Maria Curi, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
Definition of unsophisticated
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animalizing

animallike

animal magnetism

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“Animallike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animallike. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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