feral child
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But, she acknowledged, perhaps that was a blessing: “Knowing me, being the feral child that I was, I would have had no restraint, and I would have been long dead.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
He owns it, and he’s as angry as a feral child who’s soiled himself in the sandbox.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2023
Such devices worked well in “Synonyms,” whose protagonist was a kind of overgrown, inattentive, feral child.
From Washington Post ● May 3, 2022
Amma as a snarling feral child explained everything — and nothing — simultaneously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2019
The play placed this feral child, literally raised by animals, in a psychiatric unit as doctors try to socialise him.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2019
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