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vulpine

[ UK /vˈʌlpa‍ɪn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. resembling or characteristic of a fox
    vulpine cunning

How To Use vulpine In A Sentence

  • All traces of courtly refinement and laconic humour had vanished; he was now callous and vulpine, the renegade spirit of the hoodlum streets returning to his lost playground. Ballardian » Simon O’Carrigan’s The Drowned World
  • Keepers haven't seen any vulpine intruders for several months in the 67-acre enclosure, but the penguins continue to be kept under lock and key for their own safety.
  • Riding on a black horse, and glittering with black enamelled armour as well, the brother was more than a little vulpine. A TIME OF WAR
  • Starring the brusque and vulpine Vladimir Mashkov, Tycoon is an engaging product of the wild-and-crazy school of Eastern European filmmaking.
  • The general public probably only vaguely recalls him as an edgy, vulpine presence in such 1960s fare as The Dirty Dozen and Rosemary's Baby.
  • The case for banning fox hunting - vulpine anxiety, human emotions that are unattractive - is breathtakingly slight.
  • And when he later threatens the recalcitrant Goneril that her sister will "with her nails flay thy wolfish visage", he brandishes his own vulpine claw in her face. King Lear – review
  • The camera often lingers on Penn's face, vulpine in its haughty, unspoken anger and canine in its chronic defeat.
  • He noticed Lord Faustus, especially, laughing at him with a vulpine grin. WATER BOOK TWO: REUNION
  • And when he later threatens the recalcitrant Goneril that her sister will "with her nails flay thy wolfish visage", he brandishes his own vulpine claw in her face. King Lear – review
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