Thesaurus / feral
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Now in her 70s, Sharon Patrick calls people “dear” and “hon,” and enjoys talking about the feral cats she feeds on the South Side.
THE MURDER CHICAGO DIDN’T WANT TO SOLVEBY MICK DUMKEFEBRUARY 25, 2021PROPUBLICAShe trained horses on the side, landing a job trapping feral horses in Hawaii—and that led her to vet school.
GUARDING THE WELFARE OF WILD HORSESKATIE MCLEANFEBRUARY 24, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe more feral horses from New Zealand play, for example, the better they survive their first year.
WHY IT PAYS TO PLAY AROUND - ISSUE 94: EVOLVINGANDREAS WAGNERDECEMBER 16, 2020NAUTILUSThe first is feral cowardice — captured in the wild-eyed, hunted expression of Republican senators asked to comment on the president’s latest insane or destructive tweet.
REPUBLICANS, IT ISN’T TOO LATE TO STAND UP FOR THE NATIONMICHAEL GERSONDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIt may be an exercise in delusion, but it’s still heartening to bask in these letters, to take this feral love for what it was at a freeze-frame moment in time.
WHAT KURT VONNEGUT’S RAPTUROUS LOVE LETTERS REVEAL ABOUT HIM AS A WRITER — AND HUSBANDSUSAN KESELENKO COLLDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThrow in some fresh wild turkey bones along with some fish bones, or keep the broth mammalian by blending elk bones with those from a feral hog.
BONE BROTH WILL SUSTAIN YOU AT HOME AND IN THE WILD. HERE’S HOW TO MAKE IT.BY TIM MACWELCH/OUTDOOR LIFEOCTOBER 5, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEHow again does it explain reversion to long-lost characters and the resumption of feral characteristics?
SELECTIONS FROM PREVIOUS WORKSSAMUEL BUTLERIn a feral state he would doubtless have left the herd and become a solitary wanderer.
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAMMALIA OF INDIA AND CEYLONROBERT A. STERNDALEAn old hunter then mounted a tame elephant, went up to the feral one, seized his ear and ordered him to lie down.
ANIMAL INTELLIGENCEGEORGE J. ROMANESFurthermore, they are all comparatively large, and if they ever become feral in England, it will not be for many years to come.
BIRDS IN TOWN AND VILLAGEW. H. HUDSONWORDS RELATED TO FERAL
- barbarous
- bloodthirsty
- brutal
- brutish
- cruel
- fell
- feral
- fierce
- frightful
- grim
- implacable
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- inhumane
- lupine
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- unrestrained
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- sadistic
- truculent
- unrelenting
- violent
- wolfish
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