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
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
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
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
