Example Sentences

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“Moshfegh’s sentences are piercing and vixenish, each one a kind of orphan. She plays interestingly with substance and illusion, with dread and solace on the installment plan.”

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2018

Moshfegh’s sentences are piercing and vixenish, each one a kind of orphan.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2018

Embodied in the diminutive frame of Susan Lucci, Erica has gone from vixenish teen to grande dame, and along the way the actress has gained notoriety as the losingest woman in awards history.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2011

Inside the Greer Garson roles Streep usually plays, a vixenish Carole Lombard is screaming to be cut loose.

From Time Magazine Archive

There came a vixenish gleam into the old woman's faded eyes.

From The Wharf by the Docks A Novel by Warden, Florence