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

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

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

An urban fox will “carry on being foxy, whereas thoroughly urbanized humans are in danger of not being optimally human,” Foster writes.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

Gawaine rose to his feet, foxy, burly and towering.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White