foxiness
Example Sentences
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The columnist is even willing to bypass foxiness and hedgehoghood to become a guinea pig: You want to know if it is possible to teach a 38-year-old how to drive a stick shift?
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2013
Less convincing than his generosity was Cineman Fox's foxiness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But when Washington finally got around to "clarifying" its action, it turned out that both these schools of thought had vastly overestimated Washington's foxiness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Some of the foxiness must be taken out of it.
From Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers
The pulp of the grape is hard and the flavor is that of Wyoming and Northern Muscadine, grapes characterized by disagreeable foxiness.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick