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Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Reminiscent of a hawk.
Etymologies
- hawk + -like (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He was tall and clean shaven, with chunks of wavy brown hair sweeping back from features that could only be described as hawklike.”
“His eyes were sharp and piercing…and his thin, hawklike nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision.”
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“Ms. Success was tall with a hawklike nose and enormous brown eyes that made her look slightly cartoonish.”
“Instead of the generous spread of surface with which it had taken the air, it was now a lean and hawklike monoplane balanced on long and exceedingly narrow wings.”
“He shoved his lean, hawklike face into the very center of the slimy, squirming mass, and with his several ancient fangs bit into the heart and the life of the matter.”
“His skin was the same color as the sand, and his features were hawklike.”
“John Milway emailed to tell us how he'd tried and failed to identify a hawklike bird he'd seen from his garden.”
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“That hawklike appendage was the longest in the family.”
“The daughter was a physician, and she watched me with intense, hawklike eyes while I finished the exam.”
“He stood there, alert and watching me with hawklike eyes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hawklike’.
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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Sound or sequence
dulcimer, borborygmi, ecchymosis, scrivener, fustilugs, zarf, bawdyhouse, googleable, archfiend, gymkhana, cuckoopint, pilpul and 104 more...
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Copeaux of Random Palavery
More randomly selected words to add to my various lists of "Random Palavery". "Copeaux" in the sense of bits, bobs, chips, fragments, pieces. Don't ask why my Random Palavery lists consist of 151...
deshoot, land cress, american cress, bank cress, belle isle cress, bermuda cress, early yellowrocket, early wintercress, scurvy cress, locust valley loc..., massively multipl..., local fluff and 139 more...
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The Octopus
Words gleaned from Frank Norris's 1901 novel The Octopus
deerhound, diapason, thitherward, chitter, unsteady, wiper, overspire, inanition, sheen, hiccough, quirt, broncho and 44 more...
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yarb The "klik" in this word is visually pleasing. Aug 19, 2008
yarb As he spoke, he stroked the bridge of his hawklike nose with his bent forefinger.
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, bk 2, ch. 1 Aug 19, 2008