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

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

Less convincing than his generosity was Cineman Fox's foxiness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet now Baltook came, and made it seem all odd again, because he carried with him the foxiness of things which had always remained foxy since the beginning of the world!

From Dusty Star by Baker, Olaf

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 Hedrick, U. P.