Definitions
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- adjective Like a
wolf .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf
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Examples
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Arkansas, man was walking his dogs when they ran into four "wolflike" creatures.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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The paper called the assault "wolflike" in a front-page headline.
unknown title 2009
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While they share a bunch of traits that seem superficially more 'wolflike' than more 'derived' breeds-- less obedient, more pack oriented, single annual estrous, more likely to howl and yodel than bark a lot, den- digging-- they still fall strongly on the dog rather than wolf side of the divide behaviorally, still have more neotenic skulls, up- curled tails, still watch humans for cues and want to please-- the whole suite of things Darren mentioned, and more.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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While they share a bunch of traits that seem superficially more 'wolflike' than more 'derived' breeds-- less obedient, more pack oriented, single annual estrous, more likely to howl and yodel than bark a lot, den- digging-- they still fall strongly on the dog rather than wolf side of the divide behaviorally, still have more neotenic skulls, up- curled tails, still watch humans for cues and want to please-- the whole suite of things Darren mentioned, and more.
Dog Origins 2006
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The flight attendant looks at me in horror as Abraham Lincoln breaks free from the carrier and leaps onto my lap, still screeching, his mouth pulled back in a wolflike grimace.
Dirty Secret Jessie Sholl 2011
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The twenty or so mangy, wolflike canines bared their teeth and howled before taking off for a dowdy Soviet-style municipal building.
Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011
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MORPHED: WHEN WHALES HAD LEGS examines the environmental pressures that turned a wolflike creature that hunted in shallow waters into a leviathan of the seas.
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He has taken it upon himself to tend to the town's abandoned cats and dogs, including the wolflike Aki.
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The twenty or so mangy, wolflike canines bared their teeth and howled before taking off for a dowdy Soviet-style municipal building.
Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011
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The twenty or so mangy, wolflike canines bared their teeth and howled before taking off for a dowdy Soviet-style municipal building.
Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011
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