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

More plausibly readable are Southern’s foxy collections of journalism and stories, “Red-Dirt Marijuana” and “Now Dig This.”

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2018

I looked at him slouching in his chair: polka-dot tie, narrow Bally shoes, foxy narrow face.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt