animallike

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for animallike
Adjective
  • Cut to 28 days later, when Spike was rescued from a horde of infected by Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell), another original survivor who turned out to be the leader of a barbaric cult.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
  • An immigration judge issued this barbaric criminal a final order of removal on November 4, 1986.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2025
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
Adjective
  • In the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis, a man dressed as a cop shot two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses, killing the DFL speaker of the House and her husband in a barbarous (and politically motivated) atrocity.
    Jeffrey Blehar, National Review, 14 June 2025
  • The barbarous relic has glittered amidst the financial carnage.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • Think actual plants, yes, but also organically shaped accent pieces that channel the outdoors, desk organizers in various shades of green, and even desktop fountains (of the non-tacky variety) for finding zen amidst all the meetings that could’ve just been emails.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The gel-like cream sinks in immediately, leaving behind a glass-like finish that is just tacky enough to grip onto makeup.
    Allure, Allure, 30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • They are dumped via place card under a domed dinner-plate cover, which is an inelegant way to go even for Love Island USA.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 14 July 2025
  • Their ingenious creation — an unlikely combination of spacesuit parts, duct tape, and the suddenly obsolete mission plan — encapsulates the film in an inelegant nutshell.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • The trial also resulted in five other convictions of hospital and provincial health officials for concealment and omission-of-duty counts, the Buenos Aires Times and Chequeado reported.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the injured were taken to Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre by air and land, a spokesperson for the provincial health organization Shared Health said in a statement to CNN.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Police describe it as a brazen, unsophisticated robbery that occurred around 5:30 p.m. on June 18, targeting a jewelry store on the 5100 block of Mowry Avenue in Fremont.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Although the answer was reasonable for an unsophisticated seller, the listing agent should have required confirmation of licensing status with the Registrar of Contractors.
    Christopher A. Combs, AZCentral.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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“Animallike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animallike. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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