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

Volunteers describe the trauma of seeing life recede from the animals’ foxy faces, and of being knee-deep in the carcasses of creatures they had worked for years to save.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023

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

He was a small undersized fellow with a foxy, waxed moustache, who had seen twelve years’ service and was in civil life a postman.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque