bestiality
Illegal animal relations
Bestiality is sexual activity between a human and an animal.
The term is clinical and legal, appearing in statutes criminalizing such acts.
Figuratively, bestiality can mean brutish or degraded behavior—conduct unworthy of humans: the bestiality of the massacre.
This older sense connects to bestial, meaning savage or animal-like.
Mistreatment of fauna
- illegalForbidden by statute
- felonySerious criminal offense
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- convictionFirmly held belief
animal cruelty · exploitation · statutory · penal code · criminality · indictment · sentencing · deviance
Wild after domestication
- brutishCruel and uncivilized
- savageFierce and untamed
- primalFirst in origin
- wildNot domesticated or controlled
untamed · barbaric · ferocious · inhuman · monstrous · brutal · cruel · vicious
Not allowed
- unmentionableToo shameful to discuss
- unspeakableBeyond verbal expression
- transgressiveViolating accepted boundaries
- abominationLoathsome, detestable thing
depravity · perversion · stigma · revulsion · disgust · social taboo
animal abuse
Mistreatment of fauna
- illegalForbidden by statute
- felonySerious criminal offense
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
conviction · animal cruelty · exploitation · statutory · penal code · criminality · indictment · sentencing · deviance
feral
Wild after domestication
wild · untamed · barbaric · ferocious · inhuman · monstrous · brutal · cruel · vicious · depraved
forbidden
Not allowed
- unmentionableToo shameful to discuss
- unspeakableBeyond verbal expression
- transgressiveViolating accepted boundaries
abomination · depravity · perversion · stigma · revulsion · disgust · social taboo
- taboostaboo, incest, cannibalism, necrophilia, pedophilia
- vice lawssodomy laws, obscenity laws, blue laws, adultery laws, indecency laws
- animal crueltyanimal abuse, animal cruelty, dogfighting, neglect, torture
- Jewish sinsidolatry, adultery, incest, blasphemy, idol worship
- Torah sinsidol worship, idolatry, blasphemy, adultery, incest
- minor offensesminor offense, white lie, petty offense, fib, jaywalking
bestialitykindness
Considerate, caring disposition
compassion · humanity · benevolence · gentleness · tenderness
bestialityhumanity
People as a whole
spirituality · high-mindedness · nobility · intellectuality · rationality