tigerish
Example Sentences
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With gross domestic product per capita on par with Japan and a stagnant population, South Korea’s tigerish growth days are behind it.
From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025
Fitted with jam-jar spectacles off the pitch, and thick contact lenses on it, Stiles' eye for a tigerish tackle instantly improved.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2020
That said, no man can resist her dark, magnetic eyes while her impulsive, passionate nature sometimes seems tigerish.
From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2019
The last thing one would have expected of him was tigerish ambition.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2015
The madwoman could hear the Head Sister’s tigerish growl rumbling underground.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
