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Owlish

adjective
1.
Resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance.





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"Owlish" Quotes from Famous Books



... 19. O ye owlish dignitaries! Still, the king was not convinced. "We have discovered much by daring adventure, why not more?" "Stick to the coast, and don't go sailing straight away from all known land into waters unknown and mysterious," ...
— Ten Great Events in History • James Johonnot
... asked pointing in the direction from which the cart had come. The driver stared at him with a look of owlish stupidity. ...
— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine
... mark his words. Not even Winona, to whom they were uttered with the air of owlish, head-snapping wisdom which marked so many of the invalid's best things. She was concerned only with the failure of Wilbur to select a seemly occupation. His working dress was again careless; he reeked ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... sardonic immensity his colleagues, yet with an under-play worthy of the Devil, our Otto proceeded to make these owlish and absurd gentlemen puppets in the hands ...
— Blood and Iron - Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its - Founder, Bismarck • John Hubert Greusel


Words linked to "Owlish" :   wise


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