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Synonyms for wolfish

showing or suggesting a disposition to be violently destructive without scruple or restraint

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Synonyms for wolfish

resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf

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devouring or craving food in great quantities

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Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility.
Two years before Wolfish the Court held that convicted inmates had to prove that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to their serious medical needs to state an Eighth Amendment claim.
In this issue, Barry Wolfish, senior vice president for corporate marketing and communications at Land O'Lakes (LOL), discusses the same process as LOL approached it.
Described as having a face that not even their own mothers could love, wolfish are normally found at depths between 100 and 300 metres in cold northern European waters.
Wolfish, "the Supreme Court for the first time explored the constitutional rights of pretrial detainees as a distinct group and articulated the principles that presently govern constitutional claims of jail inmates." The court ruled in Bell v.
It was wolfish." Now 41, Ollestad is deceptively small, with the massive torso of a much larger man.
"Is it befitting to the Muslims, who are the largest in the world in terms of population and richest in resources, to throw their brethren to the mercy of a bunch of wolfish Jews?" Sheikh Al-Budair said, adding that the "world is being ruled by a jungle law." He told the Muslims to unite because "it is the duty of people of Islam to strengthen themselves with mutual support so that they can protect their land, holy places and religion particularly at times of calamities and disasters."
Day after day he paints you and the dog sleeping--shut eye, wolfish set to his jaw, then the bunchbacked skittery quick.
It's hard to resist a smile as he ventures from Central Africa to Canada and Cumbria encountering a whole pack of wonderful wolfish characters.
In the rocky areas favored by wolfish and other species like juvenile cod and haddock, the impact is cataclysmic.
I always have that effect on women," says Taylor, flashing one of those sly, wolfish grins, which clearly marks him as a psychopath.
How is justice served by slaughtering the sheep to pay for the sins of wolfish shepherds?
It is not possible that the wolfish Nazi feelings will not eventually turn against them, because the neo-conservative idea is derived from the remnants of the Nazi idea.