Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
ferret or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The tanner saw her move and gave her a smile that showed small, ferretlike teeth.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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My whole romantic future was going up in flames, right now, under the watchful, ferretlike eyes of Felicia and Ronnie.
Sundays at Tiffany's Charbonnet, Gabrielle 2008
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Web-search giant Google last week released a beta version of a program that uses the company's ferretlike technology to let you search your own computer.
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As offers for television appearances came in, he acknowledged the wonder of it all: The tall figure with the ferretlike face, having passed the fifty-year milestone, would debut in prime-time situation comedies….
Sound and Fury Dave Kindred 2006
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Martor's ferretlike face was twisted into a quite uncharacteristic smile.
Sun of Suns 2006
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The style, which was calculated for a cosmopolitan image, set off a sharp-featured almost ferretlike, approaching-fifty face that had been carefully preserved by a Dallas plastic surgeon.
The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004
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The style, which was calculated for a cosmopolitan image, set off a sharp-featured almost ferretlike, approaching-fifty face that had been carefully preserved by a Dallas plastic surgeon.
The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004
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The style, which was calculated for a cosmopolitan image, set off a sharp-featured almost ferretlike, approaching-fifty face that had been carefully preserved by a Dallas plastic surgeon.
The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004
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The style, which was calculated for a cosmopolitan image, set off a sharp-featured almost ferretlike, approaching-fifty face that had been carefully preserved by a Dallas plastic surgeon.
The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004
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But the face was so ferretlike, the eyes so beady that he made you pause.
One False Move Coben, Harlan, 1962- 1998
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