doggish
adjective
like a dog; canine.
doggishness
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a word derived from
doggish.
Example Sentences
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The happy ending of the story has her using this new doggishness for her creative life, creating a performance piece that gives her a new place in the art world that she’s been missing.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2021
The lamp-post remained bent for three days—a fearful warning to all dogs that doggishness has limits.
From Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
With him, doggishness was both an art and a science.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
Henry asked, instantly perturbed and made self-conscious by the doggishness, the waggishness, the rakishness, of Foxall's tone.
From A Great Man A Frolic by Arnold Bennett
But it seems to me to miss the true flavour of doggishness.
From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Sir Francis Darwin
