currish

Example Sentences

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Such rival Leos flourish, And mutual hatred nourish, With a snapping almost currish, upon Afric's shore.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891 by Various

Why should you stand between me and my rights in this currish way?

From Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers by Anstey, F.

Timon, the great-natured, truly generous man, whose mind is as beneficial as the sun, cannot be currish, nor stoop to the baseness of revenge.

From William Shakespeare by Masefield, John

There was no craven slinking, there were no currish snarls.

From The Way of the Strong by Cullum, Ridgwell

The last sort of dogs consisteth of the currish kind meet for many toys, of which the whappet or prick-eared cur is one.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed