| beastly | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: bestial, brutal, brute, brutish |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: god-awful, hellish |
| bristly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: prickly, splenetic, waspish |
| christly | (adjective) resembling or showing the spirit of Christ | Synonyms: christlike |
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| costly | (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy |
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| (adjective) entailing great loss or sacrifice | Synonyms: dearly-won |
| courtly | (adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | Synonyms: formal, stately |
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| fortnightly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| ghastly | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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| (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: charnel, sepulchral |
| ghostly | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| gristly | (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: cartilaginous, rubbery |
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| knightly | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: chivalrous, gallant |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, mediaeval, medieval |
| nightly | (adjective) happening every night | - |
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| portly | (adjective) euphemisms for `fat' | Synonyms: stout |
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| priestly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood | Synonyms: priestlike |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal |
| saintly | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, beatific, sainted, saintlike |
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| sightly | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, comely, fair |
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| sprightly | (adjective) full of spirit and vitality | - |
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| unpriestly | (adjective) not priestly; unbefitting a priest | - |
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| unsightly | (adjective) unpleasant to look at | - |
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