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 Douglas Dewar
The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley
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