minx

Example Sentences

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Her affect evokes old-timey words — scamp, scapegrace, minx.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021

Millions of women had reclaimed that slur in recent years when fashion’s newly minted minx, Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso, had dubbed us #GirlBosses in her best-selling book.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2016

Most shocking of all was Mrs. Hughes’ #realtalk: To her, Lady Mary is “an uppity minx who’s the author of her own misfortune.”

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2012

The similarities between it and the Isle of Wight-set 2001 film Me Without You, which featured the very young Michelle Williams as the good girl and Anna Friel as the naughty minx, are uncanny.

From Time • Jan. 12, 2012

This tune 1 shall really confound Myrna minx.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole