tigerish

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With gross domestic product per capita on par with Japan and a stagnant population, South Korea’s tigerish growth days are behind it.

From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025

Ms. Graves “was a tigerish ‘Choleric,’” Jennifer Dunning wrote in a 1987 review in The Times, “with those long, powerful arms of hers coming into play in the ballet’s final moments.”

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2024

That said, no man can resist her dark, magnetic eyes while her impulsive, passionate nature sometimes seems tigerish.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2019

“Seidel would have given us the makers of Auden’s tigerish blazer and dovelike shoe,” he writes, “but he was never impressed enough that Auden didn’t.”

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2015

There was no tigerish growl now in his tormentor’s voice.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks