Many people sipped coffee, as dogs behaved doggishly.

Beside her, she could hear Chairman Mao panting doggishly, sounding like an old steam locomotive climbing a hill.

They belong to the genre of the 'old family retainer'; they identify themselves with their master's family and are at once doggishly faithful and completely familiar.

"And you wouldn't laugh either if you had to just stand there and take it every time a dog..." "Only when the Earthlings are looking," said Kilroy, laughing doggishly.