Definition of "owlish" []

• Resembling or characteristic of an owl. (adjective)

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• "The American nodded with a kind of owlish solemnity."
• "The Canadian-born, "owlish" architect loses his cool with a reporter from the British newspaper the"
• "We must first deal with his successor, the owlish Ayman al-Zawahiri and perhaps the Taliban's Mullah Omar."