Crossword-Solution: WOLFISH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wolfish | a. | Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WOLFISH | anagram | FISHOWL |
We have 14 clues for the answer “WOLFISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fierce and rapacious | 1 answer |
| lupine | 3 answers |
| Kind of look | 5 answers |
| A CRUELLY RAPACIOUS PERSON | 11 answers |
| Ravenous | 14 answers |
| predacious | 29 answers |
| Taking | 34 answers |
| predatory | 35 answers |
| Rapacious | 36 answers |
| Voracious | 40 answers |
| penurious | 42 answers |
| Gluttonous | 44 answers |
| Hungry | 68 answers |
| Lascivious | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WOLFISH (5)
Here, Fangs! Fangs!” he ejaculated at the top of his voice to a ragged wolfish-looking dog, a sort of lurcher, half mastiff, half greyhound, which ran limping about as if with the purpose of seconding his master in collecting the refractory grunters; but which, in fact, from misapprehension of the swine-herd’s signals, ignorance of his own duty, or malice prepense, only drove them hither and thither, and increased the evil which he seemed to design to remedy.
Covey was not a large man; he was only about five feet ten inches in height, I should think; short necked, round shoulders; of quick and wiry motion, of thin and wolfish visage; with a pair of small, greenish-gray eyes, set well back under a forehead without dignity, and constantly in motion, and floating his passions, rather than his thoughts, in sight, but denying them utterance in words.
Certainly there was something hardly human about the colonel’s wolfish pursuit of pleasure, and his chronic resolution not to go home till morning had a touch of the hideous clarity of insomnia.
The silence seems a solid thing, shot through with wolfish woe; And rowelled by the eager stars the skies vault vastly back, And man seems but a little mite on that weird-lit plateau.
Not a one but gave me a “God bless you, Davy,” ere he seized it with a great hand and began to eat in wolfish bites, his Deckard always on the watch the while.
Quotes with WOLFISH (3)
The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.
Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn afternoon when, as they were walking along the main street, it suddenly began to rain and, as if on command, there was an umbrella over every head. That was a symbol of cowardice and vulgar effeminacy, the end product of civilization. An incident like the sinking of the Titanic was atavistic, true, but its effect was most refreshing, it was the handwriting on the…
for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above groundfor burned mermaids and sick vampire girlsfor wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1999–2015).