minx
Example Sentences
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Her affect evokes old-timey words — scamp, scapegrace, minx.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
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
Answer: Surprisingly hilarious, thanks mostly to the antics of Ron’s second ex-wife—a bespectacled, psychotic minx played by Nick Offerman’s real-life partner.
From Time ● Jan. 14, 2015
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
She was not a minx, not deceitful, not designing and heartless.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
