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- noun The quality of being
wolfish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What if what Kate had been shown was meticulously choreographed to demonstrate the precise reverse: innocence concealed behind a gesture of middle-aged wolfishness?
The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006
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Pony Tail: Please, he's in the next room sleeping off a bout he had with his wolfishness last night; he ate a whole ham by himself, the pig.
From The Daily Growler City Room The Daily Growler 2006
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There was a wolfishness about this warrior that marked the barbarian.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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There was a wolfishness about this warrior that marked the barbarian.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Or anyone who valued my wolfishness rather than my princeness.
Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998
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Or anyone who valued my wolfishness rather than my princeness.
Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998
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There was a wolfishness about this warrior that marked the barbarian.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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There was a wolfishness about this warrior that marked the barbarian.
Black Colossus Howard, Robert E. 1979
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There was a wolfishness about this warrior that marked the barbarian.
Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968
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But the evil-doers also have their punishment: first they pay in that very wolfishness, in the disaster to their human quality: and next there is laid up for them the due of their Kind: living ill here, they will not get off by death; on every precedent through all the line there waits its sequent, reasonable and natural — worse to the bad, better to the good.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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