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

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

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