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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