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
  • The fourpiece — through their 1999 EP known as First Impressions, as well as their 2000 LP, Identity Crisis — had already developed a ravenous local following for their genre fusion of punk and metal that’s most commonly regarded as post-hardcore.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The ravenous larvae create ghastly wounds that can be deadly to livestock and wild animals.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There are bookshelves teeming with dog-eared paperbacks, imposing hardbacks, critical anthologies, story collections, art books; my writer is also a reader, and a voracious one at that.
    Katie da Cunha Lewin September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • But Baker has a voracious appetite for learning his craft and is a prolific note-taker.
    James Wallace, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Having secured both monopolies and monopsonies, tech companies behave more like rapacious rentiers than proper capitalists.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The man is rapacious — a hungry ghost with a big mouth and an empty stomach.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Always keep a stash of instant ramyun or late-night snacks; you’re bound to get hungry again later.
    Irene Yoo September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The Blue Raiders haven’t made the playoffs since 2013, and the program is hungry to get back in the dance.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Wolfish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wolfish. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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