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
Suddenly the boy stood up straight and firm before him, with a dourness on his face which was clearly not akin to the swoop and dash of his vulturine grandfather.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Soon as you're drawn from your own cosy drawing-room, Far over flood, field, or foam—for your sins— Then, when your breast makes for vulturine gnawing room, Bother begins!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 8, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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