Definitions

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of weasel-like.
  • adjective Similar to a weasel
  • adjective Similar to that of a weasel; as, a weasellike face
  • adjective figuratively underhanded(2); shady(4)
  • adverb Alternative spelling of weasel-like.
  • adverb In the manner of a weasel.

Etymologies

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weasel +‎ -like

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Examples

  • A gray, wiry-haired man with a pinched weasellike face approached.

    The God Hater Bill Myers 2010

  • Sitting in an old wooden armchair before a battered table, almost a caricature of the English butler, Virkan looked like Anna had supposed, pudgy, but not fat, with deep-set weasellike eyes that shifted from one side of the small lower room to the other.

    The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • Wolf wasn't the only one who thought the squirrel was worthy of interest, but the large weasellike animal, a foot and a half in length with a bushy tail that added another twelve inches to its dimensions, had a much better chance of success.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

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