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- adverb In a
feline manner; .
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Examples
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A photo taken of Reza and Sarkozy shows her, arms akimbo, bosom thrust toward his chin, staring him felinely in the face.
Un Homme in Full 2008
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A photo taken of Reza and Sarkozy shows her, arms akimbo, bosom thrust toward his chin, staring him felinely in the face.
Un Homme in Full 2008
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In their thirst for vengeance, cats everywhere have sworn to deny human beings the ability to read whenever felinely possible.
You Will Know Me By My Swagger Hayden Derk 2009
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At this same time, the Times's fashion pages decreed that spring '08 would be all about Camelot-era clothes: ladylike sheaths, as felinely taut as was the start of those ten years that took us from housewives kissing their refrigerators in magazine ads to the clamorous time-has-come-ness of the women's movement.
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I'm pretty sure it was not felinely possible for one cat to vomit up that much canned food.
December 22nd, 2006 2006
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Spainy may be well aware that we are bigger and stronger than her ... she may even know that we are eventually going to get our way -- but she intends to make our task as difficult as felinely possible.
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It wriggled felinely in the air, curled, spun-in pure joy, it seemed-and halted, poised in the air, before her.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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Scotswoman practising so felinely elastic an attitude before the open street, or possessing a face so ecstatic with pertness, or finding herself inside a dress which, though black, disclaimed all intention of being mourning and sought rather, in its clinging economy, to be an occasion of public rejoicing.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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His smile was sweet, his gait was felinely dignified, and a pervasive aroma of meekness tempered his daily walk and conversation.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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He was now certain the men were what he had taken them to be, and he grinned felinely as he squirmed around until he got into a position from which he could see them.
Square Deal Sanderson Charles Alden Seltzer 1908
hernesheir commented on the word felinely
Ferguson grinned felinely. "An' it's got out," he stated quietly. " I reckon if no one but us three knowed about it one of us has been gassin'. I wouldn't think you'd do any gassin'," he added, speaking to Stafford. -- The Rustler, a romance of the old time cow country by Charles Alden Seltzer, in Pearson's Magazine, Vol. 25 no. 1, January, 1911, p. 608.
April 26, 2011