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foxiness

  • a word derived from foxy.
    foxy
    adjective
    foxlike; cunning or crafty; slyly clever.

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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

Berries large, round, black with thin bloom, persistent, firm; skin thick, tough, adherent, astringent; flesh pale green, very juicy, tough, stringy and with some foxiness; good.

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

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 U. P. Hedrick