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owl·ish [ˈaʊlɪʃ] ADJ

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English
This side of his art is not grotesque, not horrible, but it is owlish and creepy.
www.spectator.co.uk
A small microphone inside the drummer's high hat produced owlish hooting or wailing feedback at the press of a pedal.
www.straight.com
It also has a faintly owlish look and the eyes seem almost human.
news.nationalpost.com
Little wonder, then, that they have become stuck in stereotypes: that of dust-clouds, bookworms, and owlish librarians hissing ssshhhhh!
www.nouse.co.uk
Her companion, an owlish-looking man in spectacles, pauses.
www.telegraph.co.uk
His owlish features, black frames and gray buzz cut have become the public face of small disaster.
www.stuff.co.nz
I can remember watching his segments as a child, this owlish rhetorical warrior who somehow seemed old and wise even while still clinging to middle age.
www.huffingtonpost.ca
But with his squad starting to click, the manager seems not so much to be standing there passively, as looming with that old familiar intent: owlish, rigorous and cunning.
www.independent.ie

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