Synonyms of wolfish

wolfish

adjective

as in ravenous

Related Words

• ravenous
• voracious
• rapacious
• hungry
• starving
• famished
• starved
• peckish
• underfed
• malnourished
• insatiable
• undernourished
• piggish
• hoggish
• gluttonous
• greedy
• empty
• piggy
• gormandizing

Dissimilar Words

• satisfied
• full
• sated
• satiated
• overfed
• surfeited
• overstuffed
• engorged
• glutted
• satiate
• gorged
• stuffed
• replete
• overfull

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wolfish

No less slippery are his matinée-idol looks, which can turn wolfish or ratty on a dime, as if his beauty were moldering away from within. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026

From the Peterbald’s varied coat types to the Lykoi’s patchy, wolfish look, these cats differ in their origins, genetic traits, body structures and day-to-day grooming needs. — Pat Mueller, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026

Roddy the Ruin and his wolfish northmen make the first charge amidst a hail of arrows, looking to climb the walls. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

In Nolan and Hathaway’s interpretation, Penelope is a more calculating power player, keeping at bay the wolfish suitors who show up hoping to take Odysseus’ place and working the angles to preserve her son’s chance of assuming the throne. — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 July 2026

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. — 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