foxy

Example Sentences

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Yet while the basic gesture of translation is reverent, sometimes a foxy irreverence yields pleasing results.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

But is it a matter of incompetence — “We couldn’t even collude with ourselves,” says son-in-law Jared Kushner — or something more foxy?

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2020

The show had already done a foxy job of evoking the thought, but it can’t resist returning to the passage with a highlighter.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2019

More plausibly readable are Southern’s foxy collections of journalism and stories, “Red-Dirt Marijuana” and “Now Dig This.”

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2018

His grin was foxy too, and showed too many teeth.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt