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Definition of "foxily" []

  • In a foxy manner. (adverb)

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Use "foxily" in a sentence
  • "I close with what Franklin so foxily said about the Reverend Whitefield, whose oral sermons were so fine but whose habit of writing them down exposed him to fierce textual criticism: "Opinions [delivered] in Preaching might have been afterwards explain'd, or qualify'd by supposing others that might have accompany'd them; or they might have been deny'd; But litera scripta manet.""
  • "The speaker, Peithon, was a short wiry man with a foxily pointed, rufous face and a sharp foxy bark."
  • "Seleukos had answered him in monosyllables; Peithon had looked foxily under his reddish brows and down his pointed nose, saying this or that, but none of what he thought; Archias, though known to be in camp, had not reported at all."