foxish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Like or characteristic of a fox; foxlike; (by extension) sly.
Example Sentences
- "Over all the faces was a sheen of appetite for something. They had a foxish look under the moving tree light."
- "One was a "small, decidedly vulpine race," characterized by prominent, pointed, erect ears, pointed muzzle, silky hair and typically whitish belly. Consistent with foxish traits, the dogs were usually, brown, reddish or in some cases, white and gray."
- "Then, he is — more tigerish than the tiger, more skunkish than the skunk, more foxish than the fox."
- "Different types of political organisation, such as constitutional arrangements protecting individual rights, were simply ruses generally adopted by foxish elites to pull the wool over the eyes of the people."
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Inflected Forms
more foxish (comparative)
most foxish (superlative)