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Definition of "wolvish" [wolv•ish]

  • Alternative form of wolfish. (adjective)

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Use "wolvish" in a sentence
  • "  The heavy black snow is coming down harder now and the wolvish things are howling in the distance."
  • "Eventually they are liberated by, as is usually the case with Blake, a "vision," one in which they see their daughter living in paradisiacal peace in the wild (where Blake's fearsome tyger lives); compelled by their vision, they remain in the wild themselves, which is in fact an island of innocence: "to this day they dwell/In a lonely dell/Nor fear the wolvish howl,/Nor the lions growl.""
  • "A Scylla, barking wolvish at the loins 'last verge,"
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