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

Less convincing than his generosity was Cineman Fox's foxiness.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Well, I have made up my mind to fly at once to the convent," she said, "with my foxiness and other evil qualities.

From The Art of Disappearing by Smith, John Talbot

The vine has the characteristic foliage and habit of growth of its parent, but the fruit is earlier by a week, is of much higher quality and lacks the foxiness of most Labruscas.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.