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  • adjective Alternative spelling of animal-like.

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Examples

  • As she lumbered clumsily toward Kethry, the sorceress got a whiff of an unpleasant reek-half unwashed clothing and stale sweat, half an animallike musk.

    Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • Kirk wondered at the strange calls, neither fully birdlike nor animallike, that echoed in the rugged canyon.

    Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992

  • Kirk wondered at the strange calls, neither fully birdlike nor animallike, that echoed in the rugged canyon.

    Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992

  • Kirk wondered at the strange calls, neither fully birdlike nor animallike, that echoed in the rugged canyon.

    Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992

  • Jurt cried out-no recognizable words, just an animallike bleat.

    Sign of Chaos Zelazny, Roger 1987

  • The acid made a sickening, sizzling sound, and he sank to his knees, his shrieks fading to frantic, animallike whimpers.

    MEMORY’S EMBRACE Linda Lael Miller 1986

  • The acid made a sickening, sizzling sound, and he sank to his knees, his shrieks fading to frantic, animallike whimpers.

    MEMORY’S EMBRACE Linda Lael Miller 1986

  • But Iza's actions were not animallike, they were very human, very humane.

    The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980

  • So it's a reflex of this body, with its animallike madnesses.

    The Battle of Forever Van Vogt, A. E. 1971

  • Ordinarily, Travis Fox was not one to be governed by the wishes of a _mba'a_, intelligent and un-animallike as it might be.

    The Defiant Agents Andre Norton 1958

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