wolfish

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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. 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
Adjective
  • Those ravenous fans still gave it a rare A+ CinemaScore, naturally, which is certainly kinder than some music critics were to the album itself.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But few of the directors who would join V/H/S over the years that followed introduced a more memorable creature — a birdlike demon who oscillates from purring affection to ravenous rage — or so skillfully tracked the running bodies captured by a running camera.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Some assignments are like mine on Thursday – fun, with storylines easily presenting themselves and a voracious audience.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • As engineers race to create next-generation AI models capable of reasoning, the ever-increasing tab is becoming more evident, as are the voracious electricity and water needs of AI data centers.
    Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect?
    Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Having secured both monopolies and monopsonies, tech companies behave more like rapacious rentiers than proper capitalists.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The sensational turn in the case fueled breathless news coverage as the public became hungry for any revelation about the brothers’ motives or the dark secrets that had been festering inside the Menendez family home.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • This familiar restaurant is a magnet for hungry thru hikers passing through town since it’s located directly on the Appalachian Trail.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Wolfish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wolfish. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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