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
  • Fans became so ravenous that multiple guests drove hours for a taste, sometimes visiting from other states, only to find no physical space for dining.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
  • That was part of what made the press so ravenous to have at her.
    Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • Giard grew up to become both a voracious reader (with a B.A. in English and American literature from Yale and an M.A. in comparative literature from Boston University) and a foremost chronicler of writers.
    Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
  • Hosono’s mastery of sound comes from his voracious musical appetite, a consummate collector and listener of records.
    Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • His class anxieties are a through line in the novel, as revealed in his constant conflict with Hooper, who is rapacious and sleazy.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
  • But Pulisic and the other first-choice players missing from the Gold Cup roster were put in a bad position by a global soccer environment with a rapacious appetite for matches — or rather a rapacious appetite for the money those matches produce.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • That's because tomatoes are notoriously hungry for nutrients, and broccoli will compete for the same selection of nutrients in the soil.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 29 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, hungry Palestinians are enduring a catastrophic situation in Gaza.
    WAFAA SHURAFA, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025

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“Wolfish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wolfish. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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