hawky

comparative more hawky · superlative most hawky

1. Resembling or characteristic of a hawk.

   He had a hawky face with a high colour and eyes like slits of blue crystal, set in a web of fine lines. They were hard but not unkind.

   1963, D'Arcy Niland, The shiralee

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   He was a tall man with very powerful-looking shoulders, but his flesh seemed to sag thinly over his big frame; his face was thin, too, over a hawky nose and receding chin and gray hair.

   1953, Mignon Good Eberhart, The unknown quantity

   Synonyms: hawklike