vulpine
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‘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
Wrote Frank: “I hope having to replace papers doesn’t negatively affect The Post’s financial status. Maybe The Post should consider expanding to this vulpine demographic and accepting payments in the form of rodent carcasses.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 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
She is younger than I am, tall, slim, dark-haired, pretty in a sharp-featured, vulpine sort of way.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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