minx

Example Sentences

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And Poppea, his beloved, is a scheming minx.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2017

Millions of women had reclaimed that slur in recent years when fashion’s newly minted minx, Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso, had dubbed us #GirlBosses in her best-selling book.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2016

Meanwhile, a suburbanite should consider investing in a no-fuss urban crash pad for himself, as in the 2012 Magnetic Fields song: Where's a minx get minks to wear?

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2014

The similarities between it and the Isle of Wight-set 2001 film Me Without You, which featured the very young Michelle Williams as the good girl and Anna Friel as the naughty minx, are uncanny.

From Time • Jan. 12, 2012

One of the guests was an elderly gentleman with a white beard and pointed hat, and the other was a handsome minx with an olive complexion and plucked eyebrows.

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