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beastly
adjective- bad (to whatever degree), unpleasant, horrid UK, 1611
Usage considered to be dated, childish or upper-class, summoning images of the iconic public schoolboy and “fat owl of the remove”, Billy Bunter, written by Frank Richards (a nom de plume of Charles Hamilton and at least three other writers), who first appeared in The Magnet in 1908, continuing until World War 2, then reappearing in new comic titles and on television through the 1950s into the 60s and is still in print and on talking book; for which reasons, if no other, beastly remains in ironic currency. - Tell me, sergeant, is it Oxford or Cambridge you’re going to when you’ve finally discharged your beastly National Service obligations? — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 87, 1959
- excellent US
- — Lavada Durst, The Jives of Dr. Hepcat, p. 11, 1953
- excessive US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1, Spring 2000
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