wolfish
The boatman slipped back the hood which covered his head and grinned wolfishly.
He guards his domain wolfishly.

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Examples of wolfishly

wolfishly
The thug grinned wolfishly at me and then winked at his leader.
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Above him the woman looked down, her teeth gleaming wolfishly.
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He had seen mustangs in that humor shake off their tormentors and tear them wolfishly with their fangs.
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A three-mile pull brought us to the camp just as the night fell, and we stepped ashore very tired and wolfishly hungry.
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The meat he tore apart and devoured ravenously, cramming it wolfishly into his mouth as fast as he could.
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A possibility occurred to the young agent--and he quailed a bit, then grinned wolfishly at the thought.
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A dog thrust his head into the entrance and blinked wolfishly at them for a space, the slaver dripping from his ivory-white fangs.
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And now he was coming toward her less unhurriedly, his canine teeth showing wolfishly through a grin.
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He grinned wolfishly as he stepped aside.
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The intruder grinned wolfishly at him.
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His lean, sun-tanned face was an open letter of recommendation as to his ability to take care of himself in a world that had often glared at him wolfishly.
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The squatting girl laughed up at him, with some spicy jest, and he grinned wolfishly, and hooking a toe under her haunches, tumbled her sprawling onto the floor.
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With a mighty bound, that covered all of a quarter of an inch, the tiny thing leaped on the meat and began to gnaw wolfishly at it.
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