Definition of "musteline" [mus•te•line]

• Of, relating to, or belonging to the Mustelidae, the family of fur-bearing mammals that includes the badger, mink, otter, and weasel. (adjective)

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• "The direction of Ms. Clinton's musteline personality is determined by the direction of the current political breeze."
• "We now come to the third group of the musteline animals, the most aquatic of all the Fissipedia -- the _Lutridae_ or Otters -- of which there are two great divisions, the common Otters (_Lutra_) and the"
• "He went so far as to deploy the legally fraught term defamatory, which is the musteline way of subtly raising the specter of a legal threat."