currish

Example Sentences

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"Of a dog; currish," is the definition which we get from Johnson,—quite correctly, and in accordance with its etymology.

From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony

She practised the arts that breeders would use, who aimed at creating ferocious, currish, and stupid nature.

From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman

Why should you stand between me and my rights in this currish way?

From Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers by Anstey, F.

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 Gosse, Edmund

He dreads his departure with a trembling, currish fear; and I should hardly be doing good to him were I to force him to depart in a frame of mind so poor and piteous.

From The Fixed Period by Trollope, Anthony