French English Dictionary

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bête in English:

1. beast beast


The food was not fit for man or beast.
The maths exam was a real beast.
We become beasts of the herd.
For man, there is no beast more scary than man.
The sorcerer disguises himself as a beast, he wears a hide over his head and walks around town. It's my daddy who told me that.
A tiger is a beast of prey.
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
A camel is a gentle and pleasant tame beast whereof there are plenty in Africa especially in the Deserts of Libya, Numidia and Barbary by which Africans estimate their own wealth.
The primitive man was frightened at the sign of the beast.
You're a beast! You haven't even missed one question!
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
The king of this country isn't a person, but a divine beast with three pairs of wings said to be in far away in the sky.

English word "bête"(beast) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "The Cossacks" (Leo Tolstoy)
Fiches du livre - "The Red Romance Book" (Various)
Fiches du livre - "The Soul of a People" (H. Field...
Fiches du livre - "English Society" (George Du Mau...
Fiches du livre - "The Sorcery Club" (Elliott O'Do...

2. stupid stupid


He's stupid.
Pitching camp on sand banks that go under at high tide is a truly stupid thing to do.
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
Yea... Dima continued, talking mostly to himself. "It's as if the author of my story got into some stupid argument, retired to Fiji, and just left me here to rot."
They're stupid children, what a nuisance, she said. I replied praising them: "What are you saying, They're both smart, with a good memory and a promising future"
When I tried to speak to her, I always found myself too shy to do more than stammer or say something stupid.
I was assailed by the stupid, but unshakeable, idea that if I was imprudent enough to move my hand I'd be noticed.
This is probably a stupid question, but which is stronger, the tiger or the lion?
It must bother you to have taken a bad master. "I'm stupid too. So, it's all right."
This is a golden opportunity we'd be stupid to pass up. Let's get to work and finish it all in one fell swoop.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
she told him to stop messing about with his stupid painting. I was stupid enough to think she was perfect. You’re not a coward, stupid!
Probably just a stupid urban legend "But they do say 'there's no smoke without fire', don't they?"
Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of how you live?
The people all praised the emperor's clothes without telling him the truth so as not to seem stupid, until a little boy said, "The emperor is naked!"