foxy
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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
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
Others come in one of the nearly infinite shades of brown that tax the vocabulary of avian taxonomists: rufous, fulvous, ferruginous, bran-coloured, foxy.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2018
Basta emphasized the word, putting his foxy face so close to Meggie's she could see herself reflected in his eyes.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
In the 90s, Kelly Preston’s roles were more interesting and she found that could play darker, funnier, foxier parts.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2020
Had Mr. Hastings lived to see this book into print, he surely would have found a foxier ending.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2014
Foxes in Russian fables are foxier than any imagined by La Fontaine.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Silver Fox never looked foxier, needlepoint in her experienced hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Sultan was captivated by his converse and, regarding him as a friend, asked, "What meaning is there in the saw Shurayh is foxier than the fox'?"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
They also knew that Kentucky's foxiest and most renowned horseman was hell-bent on another victorious drink out of the old Derby cup.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the foxiest charmer is Tom Stoppard, who has one character say: "It may be nonsense, but at least it's clever nonsense."
From Time Magazine Archive
To this last and most troublous question of all, two of the oldest and foxiest independent moviemakers last week gave an answer that may give other independents an idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Boris, long known as the foxiest monarch in Europe, saw the time had come to shift from a pro-German policy.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have always maintained that the lady with a convent vocation is by nature the foxiest of all women.
From The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith
