vulpine

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His voice could convey flirtatiousness, amusement, heartache or wily agility, and his syncopated phrasing was as close to jazz as to traditional blues, leaping easily into falsetto or letting loose a vulpine howl.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022

‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ George Clooney is at his vulpine best as the voice of the titular woodland critter in Wes Anderson’s stop-motion-animated 2009 charmer based on the Roald Dahl children’s novel.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2021

A slim, pale, vulpine man in his mid-thirties, with well-tended light-brown hair and a goatee, came onstage, dressed in a trim black suit and a black shirt.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

It cuts to black just as its protagonist is in a room alone with her sister, who’s been revealed as a vulpine predator.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2018

There was something vulpine about the way the woman sat in her comer by the courtyard, something reptilian about her eyes.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin