A doglike affection. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : doglike devotion. From Dictionary.com.
Bryce has turned Vicky 2 into a doglike character. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight Lexicon » Rachelle LeFevre Supporting Her Twilight Family] Reference
Tommy's faithful eyes held a look of doglike affection. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
Theodore's attitude toward her was "doglike adoration.". From Wordnik.com. [The Performer] Reference
Betty Boop was "a doglike character with floppy ears". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
Strange sounds were forced out, growling but not doglike. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
Most of the time this Chase runs around being, well, doglike. From Wordnik.com. [BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » The Dog at the Park, the Cat Across the Street] Reference
Wolruf looked up at him, cocking her doglike face to one side. From Wordnik.com. [Perihilion]
It yelped at the pain, sounding almost doglike in its surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Spirits White As Lightning]
In a last doglike hope Martin looked up the precipitation reports. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
He looked down, and saw that it was only a little doglike creature. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
She was becoming bored with Marieta's anxious face and doglike presence. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
There were wolves and their more ferocious relatives, the doglike dholes. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
If that picture disgusts you, why should the cat or doglike it any better?. From Wordnik.com. [February 2009] Reference
In his mood of doglike submissiveness all feeling of rivalry had died away. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
Lastly, her eyes were frozen into an expression of pitiful, doglike terror. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
Tull scrabbled to his hands and knees and ran doglike away from the plants. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Indomitable]
Raistlin could see his twin's sad, doglike eyes, he could feel his pity. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of Spring Dawning]
They turned doglike faces towards us and watched us with large, gentle eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
The pleasure of this discovery called up the old doglike smile in full force. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
Raistlin could see his twin's sad, doglike eyes, he could feel his pity. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas] Reference
A bitter, harsh sound emerged from the doglike grimace that was now his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Wind]
Its head and those of its limbs not crushed by the fallen rock were also doglike. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Gryphon]
Their gaping maws and huge teeth left little room for brains in their doglike skulls. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
Anise wasn't using magic to hold them any longer — the doglike devotion was theirs. From Wordnik.com. [In the Midnight Hour] Reference
His devotion to Duare was almost doglike, and she quite startled me by encouraging him. From Wordnik.com. [Escape on Venus]
There was another pitiful and wracking groan, and the doglike noise of painful vomiting. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
She simply shook herself in place, doglike, making the water fling out in every direction. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
Tombs jumped violently -- and then he recognized lopers, the doglike scavengers of Sereda. From Wordnik.com. [Covergent Series]
Nappers, tiny crustaceans with multihued shells, filled the air with their doglike barking. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage To The City Of The Dead]
The girl handed him the study with a look of almost doglike gratitude in her narrow gray eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
Wolruf, a golden-furred alien of vaguely doglike shape, was also grinning in her own toothy way. From Wordnik.com. [Alliance]
There was an amber glint far back in the brown eyes, worlds distant from Gary's doglike eagerness. From Wordnik.com. [The Silicon Mage]
In seconds, they mutated into a pack of doglike animals, howling, fighting, fleeing down the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Twenty-two horrors and twice as many of the doglike terrors stared at her from all around the room. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2008 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
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