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

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

Berries medium to large, oval, black with heavy bloom, persistent, soft; skin thick, tough, adherent, astringent; flesh pale green, translucent, juicy, fine-grained, tender, meaty, some foxiness, sweet; good.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.

Nay, it is the very art of foxiness that the fox itself is made to look like a goose, and the wolf is given the appearance of a lamb.

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry