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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I usually find that it's pretty good policy to oppose suspicion with candor, foxiness with openness, indifference with earnestness.

From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by Lorimer, George Horace

That was my reason for never marrying him—one of my many reasons, for his foxiness hasn't been the only thing about Jathrop that I've seen through.

From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Warner, Anne