foxy

Example Sentences

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Yet while the basic gesture of translation is reverent, sometimes a foxy irreverence yields pleasing results.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Savvier antagonists lodge parody of ruler suited up in a foxy tiara.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2022

Others come in one of the nearly infinite shades of brown that tax the vocabulary of avian taxonomists: rufous, fulvous, ferruginous, bran-coloured, foxy.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2018

An urban fox will “carry on being foxy, whereas thoroughly urbanized humans are in danger of not being optimally human,” Foster writes.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

The sky seemed as close as the tops of the trees, covered with still cloud and flushed on the morning side with a lurid, foxy glow.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams