currish

Example Sentences

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It seems a currish fate that puts such men into the grasp of paltry and sordid cares like these!

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons

He was a cur, and denied the accusation in a currish manner, hardly intended to create belief.

From Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite 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

Such rival Leos flourish, And mutual hatred nourish, With a snapping almost currish, upon Afric's shore.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891 by Various

Great instances of fidelity, such as 'Gellert' or the 'Dog of Montargis', both of which are Eastern and primeval, have scarcely redeemed the cringing currish nature of the race in general from disgrace.

From Popular Tales from the Norse by Dasent, George Webbe