vulturine

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Mandelup follows Tester as he is scouted by a vulturine manager, who we only meet once, and, believe me, once is enough.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2019

His eyes were the worst – glittery and vulturine.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2018

Even Erdrich seems tested by Romeo with his "caved, tubercular-looking chest, scrawny arms, a vulturine head, and perpetually stoked-up eyes."

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2016

Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.

From The Prince and Betty by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

But the virtuous critic, after the alleged nature of the vulturine kind, would appear to have eyes and ears and nose for nothing else. 

From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund