vulturine

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Mandelup follows Tester as he is scouted by a vulturine manager, who we only meet once, and, believe me, once is enough.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2019

His eyes were the worst – glittery and vulturine.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2018

Even Erdrich seems tested by Romeo with his "caved, tubercular-looking chest, scrawny arms, a vulturine head, and perpetually stoked-up eyes."

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2016

Hume once demolished one of these vulturine nurseries and found that it weighed over eight maunds, that is to say about six hundredweight.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas

Even the petticoated torchbearers from rotten Rome, who lighted the faggots in Smithfield some years before, if more blustering and cocksy, were less bitter and vulturine.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage