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  • noun The quality of being wolfish.

Etymologies

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wolfish +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • There was a wolfishness about this warrior that marked the barbarian.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • There was a wolfishness about this warrior that marked the barbarian.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Or anyone who valued my wolfishness rather than my princeness.

    Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998

  • Or anyone who valued my wolfishness rather than my princeness.

    Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998

  • There was a wolfishness about this warrior that marked the barbarian.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • There was a wolfishness about this warrior that marked the barbarian.

    Black Colossus Howard, Robert E. 1979

  • There was a wolfishness about this warrior that marked the barbarian.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • 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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