owlish

IPA: ˈaʊɫɪʃ

adjective

  • Resembling or characteristic of an owl.
  • Wise and solemn.
  • Stupid; dull-looking.
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Examples of "owlish" in Sentences

  • The American nodded with a kind of owlish solemnity.
  • In flashbulbs they went owlish, lacquered in oil blue.
  • I suspect that I, too, am a hummingbird trying to learn owlish ways.
  • In comments I admitted I had a hummingbird spirit but was striving to learn owlish ways.
  • The Canadian-born, "owlish" architect loses his cool with a reporter from the British newspaper the
  • We must first deal with his successor, the owlish Ayman al-Zawahiri and perhaps the Taliban's Mullah Omar.
  • Bottom line: Outlines might be more suited to owlish writers, but they can be used effectively by hummingbirds like me, too.
  • Senate Minority Leader McConnell, 68, is owlish, phlegmatic, and gray, and often looks bothered, as though lunch isn't agreeing with him.

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