From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbestialitybes‧ti‧al‧i‧ty /ˌbestiˈæləti $ ˌbestʃi-/ noun [uncountable] 1 SCCSYsexual relations between a person and an animal2 formalCRUEL very cruel behaviour
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bestiality• Accusations against his criminality and bestiality are related to the desire to purify our own culture and civilisation.• Such tech gangs held the frontier between the tangled civilization above and the bestiality beneath.• In every instance, rituals of humiliation, of slow torture, of unspeakable bestiality accompanied the killings. 