foxy

Example Sentences

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Yet while the basic gesture of translation is reverent, sometimes a foxy irreverence yields pleasing results.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

The show had already done a foxy job of evoking the thought, but it can’t resist returning to the passage with a highlighter.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2019

Eventually, Tetlock and his collaborator, Barbara Mellers, assembled a team of foxy volunteers, drawn from the general public, to compete in a forecasting tournament.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2019

Others come in one of the nearly infinite shades of brown that tax the vocabulary of avian taxonomists: rufous, fulvous, ferruginous, bran-coloured, foxy.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2018

He was a small undersized fellow with a foxy, waxed moustache, who had seen twelve years’ service and was in civil life a postman.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque