currish
Example Sentences
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A lank, ugly cur, of unassignable breed, but unmistakably currish—a rank, unmitigated cur, with melancholy visage and moist eyes—returned the look.
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As one well-fed dog is sure to be snarlish to a poorer brother—poor human nature—this currish principle is but too true when applied to us.
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There was no craven slinking, there were no currish snarls.
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"The lives of all that faithful be, This good day, will I spare; But wo betide or kings or boors, That currish Christians are!"
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O people currish, churlish as their seas— He rejoices he leaves them, never to return till “rocks shall turn to rivers.”
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