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His portrayal doesn’t so much personalize the figure of Hamlet’s murderous, satyr-like uncle-turned-stepfather as incarnate the spreading rot creeping through the kingdom.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2017

The diagnosis of the satyr-like mathematician had been accurate.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Don't call it satyr-like; you'd wound Some scores, whose honest pates The self-same type present, upon The Carabas estates!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

"And a modern newspaper is a circus," pronounced the satyr-like scholar.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

As I spoke, his eyes seemed to grow darker and to glow with fire, and the cunning, satyr-like expression I had noticed before to intensify.

From A Romantic Young Lady by Grant, Robert