foxiness
- a word derived from foxy.
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
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Less convincing than his generosity was Cineman Fox's foxiness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Some of the foxiness must be taken out of it.
From Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Powers, Mabel
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