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

Savvier antagonists lodge parody of ruler suited up in a foxy tiara.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2022

There are fox tea towels, mugs, greetings cards and even – despite all those tabloid stories about foxes who want to eat your children – foxy babygrows.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2017

An urban fox will “carry on being foxy, whereas thoroughly urbanized humans are in danger of not being optimally human,” Foster writes.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

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