foxy
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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
Volunteers describe the trauma of seeing life recede from the animals’ foxy faces, and of being knee-deep in the carcasses of creatures they had worked for years to save.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
But is it a matter of incompetence — “We couldn’t even collude with ourselves,” says son-in-law Jared Kushner — or something more foxy?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2020
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
The sky seemed as close as the tops of the trees, covered with still cloud and flushed on the morning side with a lurid, foxy glow.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
In the 90s, Kelly Preston’s roles were more interesting and she found that could play darker, funnier, foxier parts.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2020
Had Mr. Hastings lived to see this book into print, he surely would have found a foxier ending.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2014
Foxes in Russian fables are foxier than any imagined by La Fontaine.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Silver Fox never looked foxier, needlepoint in her experienced hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
I sometimes think that I am not so good, That there are foxier, warmer babes than I, That Fate has given me the calm go-by And my long suit is sawing mother's wood.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
To this last and most troublous question of all, two of the oldest and foxiest independent moviemakers last week gave an answer that may give other independents an idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Boris, long known as the foxiest monarch in Europe, saw the time had come to shift from a pro-German policy.
From Time Magazine Archive
They also knew that Kentucky's foxiest and most renowned horseman was hell-bent on another victorious drink out of the old Derby cup.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the foxiest charmer is Tom Stoppard, who has one character say: "It may be nonsense, but at least it's clever nonsense."
From Time Magazine Archive
I'm thinking of the time that Jink McAtee, afterward one of the foxiest horse-thieves who ever used an upside-down brand in the Southwest, got interested in squeeze-spindle in Guthrie.
From Taking Chances by Clarence L. Cullen
