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doglike

a. 1 Similar to a dog; canine#Adjective. 2 Similar to that of a dog 3 (context rare English) Befitting a dog adv. 1 In a #Adjective way. 2 (context rare English) As one would act toward a dog; as, to treat someone #Adjective.

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doglike

adj. resembling a dog; especially in devotion; "a doglike affection"

Usage examples of "doglike".

But a little doglike whine of eagerness from bruin made him continue with the feeding, and from that time on every morsel she had was taken neatly from his hand.

X Still he heard, and doglike, hoglike, ran Nose of hearing till his blind sight saw: Woman stood with man Mouthing low, at paw.

XII Doglike, hoglike, horselike now he raced, Riderless, in ghost across a ground Flint of breast, blank-faced, Past the fleshly bound.

Doglike forms and batlike forms and snakelike forms were arriving and settling and moving into position in a huge encircling mass all around us, like spectators coming into a stadium.

Crystal smiled at Clint, who was watching her with a doglike devotion.

While equally massive, the vaguely doglike creature was square-jawed and pug-nosed with a mane and stub tail of thick, short, curly hair.

When he had quite done with it, he shook himself in a very doglike manner, and rejoined the ladies.

But the condemned man looked so submissively doglike that it seemed as if he might have been allowed to run free on the slopes and would only need to be whistled for when the execution was due to begin.

In Australia, bounties were paid on the Tasmanian tiger (properly the thylacine), a doglike creature with distinctive “.