beaverish
- a word derived from beaver.
Example Sentences
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With beaverish industry, armed with staplers, tape, glue and other humble implements of construction, he has transformed his vulgar materials into glittering altars, chalices, papal crowns and icons.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2012
The campaign was a nightmare for the shy, beaverish Hoover who hates crowds, strangers, speechmaking, gladhanding. backslapping.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today's manager is a beaverish scuffler who stays in boxing only because it is the life he knows.
From Time Magazine Archive
His plan was beaverish: to walk, sniff, conn and brood every one of the county's 12 central grids, 744 sq. mi. on the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
In essence the Physician's task is always heroic, eminently human: but in practice most unluckily at present we find it too become in good part beaverish; yielding a money-result alone.
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas
