currish
Example Sentences
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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
It is a currish thing to look upon death in battle or by hara-kiri as a pollution: this is a thing to bear in mind.
From Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale
There was no craven slinking, there were no currish snarls.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
Then I saw a thousand faces made currish by the cold, whence shuddering comes to me, and will always come, at frozen pools.
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Charles Eliot Norton
O people currish, churlish as their seas— He rejoices he leaves them, never to return till “rocks shall turn to rivers.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
