foxiness

Example Sentences

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The columnist is even willing to bypass foxiness and hedgehoghood to become a guinea pig: You want to know if it is possible to teach a 38-year-old how to drive a stick shift?

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2013

Less convincing than his generosity was Cineman Fox's foxiness.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when Washington finally got around to "clarifying" its action, it turned out that both these schools of thought had vastly overestimated Washington's foxiness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of the foxiness must be taken out of it.

From Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Powers, Mabel

There was a foxiness about Jathrop as nobody never fully saw into but me.

From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Warner, Anne