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

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

In the second story, Chick asks why Fox doesn’t follow a typical vulpine diet and chicksplains to him what proper foxes eat.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2018

His speech was slow and mellow, measured and unexcited, his gestures were wide, and new teeth gave him a vulpine smile out of all proportion to his emotion.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck