currish
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Such an exhibition of currish cowardice and sullen bullying spite increases rather our wondering pity for its victim than our wondering sense of her degradation.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
The last sort of dogs consisteth of the currish kind meet for many toys, of which the whappet or prick-eared cur is one.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
I miss animal life sadly in these parts: the dogs I see about the streets are few in number, and miserably currish specimens of their kind.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
Timon, the great-natured, truly generous man, whose mind is as beneficial as the sun, cannot be currish, nor stoop to the baseness of revenge.
From William Shakespeare by John Masefield
Thus oft we see a currish, Mungrel Crew, A stately Mastiff eagerly pursue.
From Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast by J. V. (Joseph V.) Guerinot
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