currish
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I miss animal life sadly in these parts: the dogs I see about the streets are few in number, and miserably currish specimens of their kind.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
His face was unhealthy and currish, the eyes were malicious, and above his ears were combed two large tufts of glossy hair.
From The Shadow of the Cathedral by Mrs. W. A. Gillespie
Timon, the great-natured, truly generous man, whose mind is as beneficial as the sun, cannot be currish, nor stoop to the baseness of revenge.
From William Shakespeare by John Masefield
"Of a dog; currish," is the definition which we get from Johnson,—quite correctly, and in accordance with its etymology.
From Thackeray by Anthony Trollope
Such an exhibition of currish cowardice and sullen bullying spite increases rather our wondering pity for its victim than our wondering sense of her degradation.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
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