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houndlike

  • a word derived from hound.

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He has a houndlike face, with droopy flews.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2020

He is a former professor of philosophy, carelessly dressed, with watery blue eyes and a fleshy, houndlike face.

From Time Magazine Archive

The overall impression was of a long face, a triangular face, a bit houndlike.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

He was not a special breed of dog—though there was something rather houndlike about him—he was just a dog.

From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Tarkington, Booth

He loped off swiftly, a lean brown houndlike creature, a Grand Commerce development of some aristocratic Terran breed and probably a considerable improvement on the best of his progenitors.

From Legacy by Schmitz, James H.