doggishness
- 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
It seemed to him that doggishness was not the glorious thing he had thought.
From Tales of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
With him, doggishness was both an art and a science.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
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 Bennett, Arnold
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 Bennett, Arnold
