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- adjective
Ferretlike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And one day in the month of fodder-burning and the taking of cold baths, Gandolo of the Watchful Eye spied a few shifty-looking men lurking around a merchant’s jade shop, eyeing the expensive wares with the kind of ferrety greed seen in the faces of takers and breakers the world over.
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Maybe we won't find out for a while yet, then, whether anyone else in the cabinet has a ferrety Werrity all of their own.
Lucy Mangan's pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet 2011
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Less common, and more exciting, is the skill-prodigy, the ferrety junior ballerina who comes snorting out of his elite rabbit hole ready-made.
Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit | Barney Ronay 2011
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The BBC's obituary was delivered by its media correspondent, Nick Higham, a ferrety cultural bureaucrat who has never written a sentence anyone has remembered.
Christopher Hitchens: He died too young, with too much left to say | Nick Cohen 2011
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I found the film's fractured chronology, grimy miserablism, and Cotillard's ferrety frenzy nerve-wracking, with no compensating grace notes to offset the squalor and syringes.
Little Sparrow, Big Thirst: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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Within two minutes, Ron stood before them, as small and ferrety as the sick wizard, and wearing the navy blue robes that had been folded in his bag.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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Seconds later there was another pop, and a small, ferrety looking wizard appeared before them.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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“Psst!” said a voice, and he looked around to see a whispy little witch and the ferrety wizard from Magical Maintenance gesturing to him from over beside the statue.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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Seconds later there was another pop, and a small, ferrety looking wizard appeared before them.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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Within two minutes, Ron stood before them, as small and ferrety as the sick wizard, and wearing the navy blue robes that had been folded in his bag.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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