The word "wolfish" is an acceptable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means to have some of the qualities of a wolf, such as being hungry, fierce, or predatory. For example, you could say: He gave her a wolfish grin that sent a shiver down her spine.
The firm's boss is French and its chairman is Swedish (in a delightful irony, the wolfish Pfizer is run by a Scot).
Some wolfish hedge funds are avowedly short-term capitalists; by contrast, idealistic social activists (such as the greens who failed to stop the re-election of an Exxon Mobil director this week) regard lucre as filthy.
The King Charles spaniels exhibited only two.When they asked a group of independent experts on morphology to assess how wolf-like each of the breeds they had studied appeared, they found that the degree of wolfish looks a breed exhibited correlated closely with the number of different aggressive and submissive signals shown by that breed.
The Defenders of Wildlife, a wolfish outfit, says coyotes kill 20 times more cattle than wolves do.
The wolfish incumbent, Rick Perry, is an outspoken social and fiscal conservative who has clanged heads with the Obama administration on several occasions.
Millenia of puppy love have generated more than 400 breeds of domestic dog, ranging from the wolfish, robust Siberian husky to the shrieking, guinea-pig adjacent chihuahua.
He taxed the wolfish merchants and money-lenders of Cheapside but turned a blind eye to their cheating ways.
Most voters have already decided whether Cameron can carry off his role, and if he more resembles a wolfish Curzon or a lion-hearted Winston.
"Manu likes to come out of the line and hit people," he said with a wolfish grin.
Later, when the spirit shows Scrooge the symbolic pair of feral children, "yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish", it treats the boy Ignorance as more dreadful than the girl Want.
But unlike Mandela, his wolfish desire to grab power by the throat and refuse, under any circumstances, to let go, ultimately led to Robert Mugabe becoming one of the continent's most notorious villains.
