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• r  in the manner of a wolf

• Even people who don't know much about art can tell you something about Amedeo Modigliani, the dissolute wild man of Montparnasse, wolfishly handsome, penniless, tubercular .
• One of the funniest scenes in the current Broadway hit, Room Service, is that in which three starving actors leap wolfishly upon a well-laden table, snap at everything in sight .
• He also wolfishly evoked Little Red Riding Hood, with dozens of furry capped capes.

Quotes

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• Edith Sitwell in Wall Street Journal
  Regarding a section of the poem "The Drum" ("Is it black night? / Black as Hecate howls a star / Wolfishly, and whined / The wind from very far"), Sitwell explained: The "small-vowelled quick three-syllabled word 'Hecate' makes the line rock...
• Norman Lewis in Telegraph.co.uk
  ...and his first wife Ernestina had married in secret, and afterwards she delivered a take-it-or-leave-it speech to her father, who sat in stunned silence and then "straightened and smiled at me, a little wolfishly, I thought," Lewis...