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
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
Less convincing than his generosity was Cineman Fox's foxiness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Niagara has much of the foxiness of the wild Labrusca, distasteful to many palates.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
Nay, it is the very art of foxiness that the fox itself is made to look like a goose, and the wolf is given the appearance of a lamb.
From The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett
