The word "animalistic" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a person or thing that has qualities resembling or associated with an animal, or a behavior that is instinctive, powerful, and potentially violent. Example sentence: His animalistic instincts caused him to act rashly in the face of danger.
What's more, the bodies of black and minority ethnic (BME) women are sexualised in specific ways, seen as inherently sexual and animalistic, with a heavy focus on body shape, particularly the posterior.
These dances have black origins and are regularly described in terms used to stereotype black women: they are overly sexual, animalistic, uncivilised.
The nude body is primal, animalistic, and it is not uncommon for it to be accompanied by bared teeth or a war cry.
As I watched the events unfold through my window, I was appalled by the animalistic behaviour of a minority committed to causing as much trouble as possible for no apparent reason.
The successful children in the marshmallow test tended to be better at using their "cold" rational mechanisms to override their emotional, animalistic "hot" bits, with distraction techniques.
People queued for five hours to see Ms Streep, with one critic claiming that her Mother Courage "may be the most unrelenting, animalistic thing she's ever done".
Three were hit by shotgun pellets, and a female officer was badly hurt when a concrete block struck her on the head.The sight of youths attacking officers and vehicles, in a manner described by the Belfast nationalist Irish News as "vicious" and "animalistic", was televisually irresistible.
McQueen's fashions were made for women who were on the turn too: morphing from human to something rather more animalistic.
He commits adultery in a thoroughly animalistic manner, at one point with a one-legged Russian woman.
The animalistic features encountered in the art of the Upper Paleolithic Period were most likely only a part of the religion that existed at that time.
Practices concerning the resurrection of animals and the preservation of species evidently also played an important part and were closely tied to animalistic conceptions.
