minx

Example Sentences

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Albisson is nobly tragic; Ould-Braham is a minx; Valentine Colasante, in the thanklessly overblown role of the maid Elisa, is determinedly desperate.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 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

The typical false reporter, she explains, is not “an evil minx who wraps the entire justice system around her little finger, just to hurt some poor, innocent man.”

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2015

Ronaldinho is the headline act, the enduring gaucho minx recalled to the squad a year after being dropped by Menezes and returning aged 31 as the incumbent Brazilian footballer of the year.

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2013

One of the guests was an elderly gentleman with a white beard and pointed hat, and the other was a handsome minx with an olive complexion and plucked eyebrows.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White