Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a cannibal; characteristic of a cannibal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage
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Examples
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The fat youth gave a semi – cannibalic leer at Mr. Weller, as he thought of the roast legs and gravy.
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Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers when carved; of its little dishes of pastry --- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries.
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You have had experience of the old - established Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers, when carved; of its little dishes of pastry -- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841
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Tom's evil genius did not lead him into the dens of any of those preparers of cannibalic pastry, who are represented in many standard country legends as doing a lively retail business in the Metropolis; nor did it mark him out as the prey of ring-droppers, pea and thimble-riggers, duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers, who are, perhaps, a little better known to the Police.
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841
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The fat youth gave a semi-cannibalic leer at Mr. Weller, as he thought of the roast legs and gravy.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841
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The fat youth gave a semi-cannibalic leer at Mr. Weller, as he thought of the roast legs and gravy.
The Pickwick papers 1836
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By using its pharynx, cannibalic planarian feeds on the decayed animals, eat worms (especially earthworms), snails, and other small animals.
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By using its pharynx, cannibalic planarian feeds on the decayed animals, eat worms (especially earthworms), snails, and other small animals.
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By using its pharynx, cannibalic planarian feeds on the decayed animals, eat worms (especially earthworms), snails, and other small animals.
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By using its pharynx, cannibalic planarian feeds on the decayed animals, eat worms (especially earthworms), snails, and other small animals.
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