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wolflike

a. Like a wolf.

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wolflike

adj. resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf; "ran in wolflike packs"; "wolfish rapacity" [syn: wolfish]

Usage examples of "wolflike".

Unbidden, his corner teeth budded, long, sharp, wolflike, and he felt the warm flush as his eyes reddened.

There were at least a dozen, and wolflike though they were, they wore pastel robes.

Only the mouths were unlike deer, as they parted in flight to reveal rows of sharp, wolflike fangs.

The wizard went down, wolflike jaws tore out a throat, and claws tore off the head that had sported that throat and tossed it into the lap of a horrified bard, all in a whirl of motion that was begun and ended before the warriors of the Swords could do more than gape and yell.

Penambrans were coming out of the woods on her side of the road as well - grimy, wolflike, so thin that the women could be distinguished from the men only by their absence of beards.

Farther on, past the fringes of the bison-horse herd, on the side of one of the low hills that lay between the plain and the river, they saw three of the over-sized, wolflike canines tearing apart the still-twitching carcass of an elk cow, while in the valley just below a black bear of good but not really remarkable size gorged himself in a dense tangle of berry bushes.

A spear lunged toward him, and he dodged, seeing the first mutie approach again, face contorted with pain, mouth open, long wolflike tusks gleaming golden.

Her full lips had pulled back from her teeth, endowing her with a strangely wolflike appearance, and her ice-blue eyes burned with an almost feral intensity.

Indeed, it was no trouble to increase my pace to a wolflike if still two-legged lope.

Both sides watched in wary silence as armor fell away from the hairy, increasingly wolflike body that quivered on all fours between them.

Its wolflike feet tamped down, and the muscles of its powerful haunch bunched in preparation for the spring.

Their faces became long, wolflike, their eyes, sunken beneath shelves of bone.

With a soul-chilling, wolflike howling and yelping that made fair to drown out all other sounds, de Burgh and his gallowglasses smote the oncoming Spaniards like a thunderclap, and a general melee ensued.

She, clad in the rough, more-or-less cured pelt of a wolflike beast, looked like a cavewoman, looked as her ancestors on this very world must have looked.

Arlo had a brief vision of Ex suffering from the myxo, or torn open by some great wolflike beast, and decided: he could not risk breaking the contract.