wolfish
adjective
resembling a wolf, as in form or characteristics.
wolfishness
-
a word derived from
wolfish.
Example Sentences
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But, of course, part of what makes it so poignant is knowing that in real life, Vanessa would not always be able to rescue Virginia from her wolfishness, that it would return.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2020
They even shrewdly set it a decade earlier in the ’80s, when Wall Street wolfishness was at its zenith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2017
Over the next week Maddie pieced together the pilot’s story in a storm of newspaper clippings with the mental wolfishness of Lady Macbeth.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Within that ring, Dusty Star felt himself in a world, in which, every moment, the wolfishness of things grew more enormous, excluding everything besides.
From Dusty Star by Olaf Baker
His sallow cheeks had lost their gaunt hollows, his dark eyes, though preserving their ironical glitter, had lost the hunger-lit gleam of wolfishness.
From The Mountebank by William John Locke
