foxiness
- noun
- /ˈfɑːksɪnəs/
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astucia
- Her foxiness in negotiations allowed her to secure a better deal than anyone expected.
Examples
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His foxiness was evident when he cleverly misled his opponents during the debate.
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And I think of his foxiness, and I just can't help myself.
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So, we recommend looking to your surroundings to amplify your natural foxiness.
Blog text (17) -
Or, to press another metaphor familiar to students of political thought: for all his foxiness, there is a rather stubborn hedgehog at work.
Academic text (1992) -
The detective admired the foxiness of the criminal's plan to evade capture.
Synonyms
28
4.5
The ability to get what you want by tricking people
24
7.5
Skill in getting what you want by tricking people
11
7.8
Clever but dishonest way of acting that tricks people
1
5.8
A clever use of tricks to get what you want from others
1
6.0
Doing things quietly to trick people without them noticing
1
8.2
Skill at tricking people to get what you want
1
6.2
A quality of being clever and secretly using tricks to get what you want
1
7.9
Clever ways of getting what you want by tricking people
Being clever at getting what you want by tricking others
Being clever in a dishonest or deceptive way that is hard to guess
A playful habit of doing mischief or telling small lies that amuses people
Antonyms
How Sly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word foxiness comes from the animal fox, known in stories for being 'sly' and 'clever', and the ending -ness means 'the quality of'. So, foxiness is the 'quality' of being clever or tricky, often used when someone tries to 'trick' or fool other people.