wolfish

[ woo l-fish ]

/ ˈwʊl fɪʃ /

resembling a wolf, as in form or characteristics.

characteristic of or befitting a wolf; fiercely rapacious.

Origin of wolfish

First recorded in 1560–70; wolf + -ish¹

wolf·ish·ly, adverb wolf·ish·ness, noun

The next thing Grif did was to tear a piece out of the loaf and wolfishly devour it.

Grif |B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
A three-mile pull brought us to the camp just as the night fell, and we stepped ashore very tired and wolfishly hungry.

Roughing It |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
There, twenty feet away, stood the wolfishly gaunt bandolero, a revolver in his right hand trained rigidly on Don Jaime!

The Wolf Cub |Patrick Casey
A joker of an extremely, not to say wolfishly practical character, he looked, under those circumstances.

A Tale of Two Cities |Charles Dickens

He was wolfishly hungry, and the dishes he looked upon gave him back assurances by sight and smell that he was very happy as well.

The Damnation of Theron Ware |Harold Frederic