currish

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There are faces which, in their usual form, seem to bluster with prosperity, but which the loss of a dozen points at whist will reduce to that currish aspect which reminds one of a dog-whip.

From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony

She practised the arts that breeders would use, who aimed at creating ferocious, currish, and stupid nature.

From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman

Why should you stand between me and my rights in this currish way?

From Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers by Anstey, F.

Let Aesop fable in a winter's night;     His currish riddle sorts not with this place.

From King Henry VI, Part 3 by Shakespeare, William

No man can serve two masters, and though to be the victim of the rival ambitions of greater men than yourself is no uncommon fate, it is a currish one.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine