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Recent Examples of wolfish
The black, wolfish dog was sentenced to death by the Framingham Police Department after tearing into the arm of the boy next door who came over to pet him.
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Peter Rubin,
Longreads,
4 Oct. 2024
From the counter of Chez Bebelle, proprietor Gilles Belzons—a large wolfish figure who once played rugby for Narbonne—picks up a megaphone and hollers across to the charcutier opposite.
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Rick Jordan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Dec. 2022
Best of all, for Sugar Kane, the band’s lead singer and Joe’s wolfish crush, the songwriters offer a clutch of sultry Harold Arlen-style blues.
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Jesse Green,
New York Times,
11 Dec. 2022
Quite noticeably, all the women are exceptionally attractive, while three somewhat older men seem distinctly wolfish.
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Washington Post,
6 Apr. 2022
Super Bowl Week is famous for its insatiable appetites, unabashed gluttony and wolfish overconsumption.
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Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2022
West matched Fox with his own leather outerwear, a distressed biker jacket, leather pants, his utilitarian Red Wing boots, and a gray hoodie—plus what looked like pale, wolfish contact lenses.
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Chelsey Sanchez,
Harper's BAZAAR,
24 Jan. 2022
In this holiday romance, ski lodge owner Landon Wolff has to cope with an influx of wolf shifters in his town at Christmastime — but his wolfish instincts get turned to 11 when veterinarian Gabrielle Lowe comes to stay.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
6 Dec. 2021
Maurizio gradually embraces his wolfish business side and Patrizia gets pushed aside – and consequently confides in a call-in TV psychic (Salma Hayek) – as the story veers from darkly comic to ultimately tragic.
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Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
23 Nov. 2021
Peter Rubin,
Longreads,
4 Oct. 2024
From the counter of Chez Bebelle, proprietor Gilles Belzons—a large wolfish figure who once played rugby for Narbonne—picks up a megaphone and hollers across to the charcutier opposite.
—
Rick Jordan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Dec. 2022
Best of all, for Sugar Kane, the band’s lead singer and Joe’s wolfish crush, the songwriters offer a clutch of sultry Harold Arlen-style blues.
—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
11 Dec. 2022
Quite noticeably, all the women are exceptionally attractive, while three somewhat older men seem distinctly wolfish.
—
Washington Post,
6 Apr. 2022
Super Bowl Week is famous for its insatiable appetites, unabashed gluttony and wolfish overconsumption.
—
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2022
West matched Fox with his own leather outerwear, a distressed biker jacket, leather pants, his utilitarian Red Wing boots, and a gray hoodie—plus what looked like pale, wolfish contact lenses.
—
Chelsey Sanchez,
Harper's BAZAAR,
24 Jan. 2022
In this holiday romance, ski lodge owner Landon Wolff has to cope with an influx of wolf shifters in his town at Christmastime — but his wolfish instincts get turned to 11 when veterinarian Gabrielle Lowe comes to stay.
—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
6 Dec. 2021
Maurizio gradually embraces his wolfish business side and Patrizia gets pushed aside – and consequently confides in a call-in TV psychic (Salma Hayek) – as the story veers from darkly comic to ultimately tragic.
—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
23 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wolfish
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San Francisco real estate agent Butch Haze of Compass has seen tech booms followed by ravenous bursts of homebuying since the first internet gold rush of the late 1990s.
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The reading drew a ravenous crowd packing the modestly sized Lower East Side storefront so tight that beads of sweat might as well have begun dripping from the walls.
Adjective
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Unfortunately, the crunch on memory and storage, in part due to the blockade of the Straits of Hormuz and, mostly, to the voracious demands of AI data centres, is having a disproportionate impact across the consumer electronics world.
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Political and local opposition has been growing because of fears about blackouts, rising electricity bills and the centers’ voracious water needs.
Adjective
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If proteinmaxxing conjures the rapacious spirit of an HGTV makeover show, fibremaxxing is like a PBS special about restoring a Victorian home.
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Young women being preyed upon and seduced by rapacious Hollywood producers, stars and studio heads is a tired cliché, but like all clichés, it is based on reality.
Adjective
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But be warned, reservations are a must — BoccaLupo is bustling with hungry diners from open to close.
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Reinventing the aliens' origin story — as nomadic, resource-hungry scavengers — just made sense in the cynical '90s.
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“Wolfish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wolfish. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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