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

Usually it keeps to rocky hills and mountains, over which it beats with a steady, sailing, vulturine flight.

From Birds of the Indian Hills by Dewar, Douglas