wolfish

adjective

Definition of wolfishnext
as in ravenous

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Recent Examples of wolfish 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wolfish
  1. ravenous
  2. voracious
  3. rapacious
  4. hungry
Adjective
  • This franchise has proven the ability to spin anything — to keep ravenous fans on the line under any circumstance.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 6 July 2026
  • As competitors down dogs for ten straight minutes with a ravenous efficiency that feels worlds apart from snacking on a frank at the ballpark, eating escalates into an élite physical spectacle nearing performance art.
    — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
Definition of ravenous
Adjective
  • Sunflower stars are such voracious consumers of sea urchins that the Friday Harbor sea star lab struggles to keep up with their appetites.
    — John Ryan, NPR, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Since the flesh-eating screwworm fly reinvaded Mexico in 2024, human cases of the voracious parasite have been mounting.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of voracious
Adjective
  • Meta hit back hard in its own opening statements Tuesday afternoon, saying many of the memos and reports the states used to paint them as rapacious were actually evidence of the company’s efforts to protect its youngest users.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • There will be the option to absorb some of the price rise triggered by the rapacious demands of AI servers for memory and storage.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of rapacious
Adjective
  • Outside the courtroom of this trial, traditional TV cameras sit side-by-side with cellphone cameras manned by new media journalists and commentators feeding an audience hungry, not just for true crime, but also for a look back in time.
    — Andy Rose, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The elastic insult is meant to belittle the target as inauthentic, attention-hungry, unserious, and unmanly.
    — Erik Forrest Jackson, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of hungry

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“Wolfish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wolfish. Accessed 23 Aug. 2026.

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