wolfish

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wolf·ish

(wo͝ol′fĭsh)

adj.

1. Of or relating to wolves.

a. Suggestive of or resembling a wolf.

b. Fierce or rapacious.

wolf′ish·ly adv.

wolf′ish·ness n.

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Adj.	1.	wolfish - resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf; "ran in wolflike packs"; "wolfish rapacity" wolflike
	2.	wolfish - devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" edacious, ravenous, voracious, esurient, rapacious, ravening gluttonous - given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure"

wolfish

adjective

Showing or suggesting a disposition to be violently destructive without scruple or restraint:

barbarous, bestial, cruel, fell, feral, ferocious, fierce, inhuman, savage, truculent, vicious.

Translations

da lupo

wolfish

[ˈwʊlfɪʃ] ADJ → lobuno

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

wolfish

adj grin, look → anzüglich

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wolfish

[ˈwʊlfɪʃ] adj (features, appetite) → da lupo (fig) (grin, ideas) → feroce

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No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world.

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He was terribly changed; gaunt, wolfish, and spoke like a madman.

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Martin shook his head, but he had failed to keep back the wolfish, hungry look that leapt into his eyes at the suggestion of dinner.

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Down the frozen waterway toiled a string of wolfish dogs.

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Cultivate in them, while there is yet time, the utmost graces of the fancies and affections, to adorn their lives so much in need of ornament; or, in the day of your triumph, when romance is utterly driven out of their souls, and they and a bare existence stand face to face, Reality will take a wolfish turn, and make an end of you.

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He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic: he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.

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Certainly there was something hardly human about the colonel's wolfish pursuit of pleasure, and his chronic resolution not to go home till morning had a touch of the hideous clarity of insomnia.

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Ascend these pitch-dark stairs, heedful of a false footing on the trembling boards, and grope your way with me into this wolfish den, where neither ray of light nor breath of air, appears to come.