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Meanings of foxy in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "cunning"
Examples for "cunning"
1
This demands quite a bit of hard work, not to say cunning.
2
Perhaps, by sheer nerve and animal cunning, you'll survive for a year.
3
There was no cunning in the speech: it was the simple truth.
4
Money and power and privilege run the Beautiful Game - and cunning.
5
Though cunning in many ways, the opossum is singularly simple in others.
1
She responded: This is a tricky question that isn't easy to answer.
2
It may look tricky, but chopsticks are really quite easy to use.
3
Ah, of course: tricky Alden, getting, as usual, exactly what he wanted.
4
However, NHS reform makes it an especially tricky time to tackle differences.
5
Certainly, overactive autoimmune response can be a tricky business, among other challenges.
1
But we're very taken with these slick new cases from Pong Ireland.
2
In many cases, the slick compounded factors that already threatened the environment.
3
A slick Wexford side claimed victory in blustery conditions at Birr yesterday.
4
The cold was expected to last another day, keeping road surfaces slick.
5
The community centre building is slick, marked with patches of the past.
1
She must be the sly one, all right, with that innocent look.
2
Like you. A sly look my way, as if expecting a response.
3
The sly approaches, the astute negotiations, the lying and the circumventing .
4
That maid said she bought it on the sly all the time.
5
But I will remember him for his sly, cheeky sense of humour.
1
The crafty antagonists grapple in every cunning of the art of war.
2
But the crafty Menapian foresaw and prevented the severity of the emperor.
3
The crafty fellow made the sign of the cross and hurried home.
4
The advantage of the plan was instantly grasped by the crafty Apache.
5
Silent, too; the struggle was silent and insidious and crafty as death.
1
Even now we have no clear case against this very wily man.
2
In a sense Congress only replaced one wily political operator with another.
3
It was merely display; the wily Boer did not yet mean business.
4
Karl wears his heart upon his sleeve; Franz is wily and hypocritical.
5
The wily bishop set to work, and the consequences were soon visible.
1
When will banks learn that dodgy tax practices actually cost them dear?
2
The Free State is a flipping dodgy place to do business, folks.
3
However, those sweets have plenty of dodgy E numbers, environmental and economic.
4
The same link on the dodgy website doesn't offer as much help.
5
I'm happy you know your people have dodgy, illegal and stole money.
1
This might have been originally designed to prevent disputes or knavish impositions.
2
Mistaken they may be; but why yell them down as knavish blasphemers?
3
The knavish fanatic closed his eyes and raised his face heavenwards.
4
Surely, sir, it cannot be right to take advantage of such knavish tricks.
5
Neither were they filled with goods, like those of knavish traders.
1
As Gollum had once said about Frodo Baggins, it was tricksy, precious.
2
Her smile was the tricksy play of moonlight among clouds of faëry.
3
Special features are tricksy and precious; Sméagol steals the rest of the show.
4
Mab is a tricksy bitch, but she's good to her word.
5
But what could he expect from such a tricksy sprite of a girl?
1
The profound sagacity of Gloucester's guileful counsel was then unanimously recognized.
2
The people of Antioch like making a noise, and they are guileful flatterers.
3
So much for my guileful attempt to bypass his defenses.
4
Both employ guileless heroes, set loose in a guileful world.
5
He had been soundly schooled by his guileful Sicilian mother.
Usage of foxy in inglês
1
The wolf will be always wolfish; the fox will be always foxy.
2
But Professor Featherwit declined, his foxy face wrinkling in a bashful laugh.
3
The scalp, with small exceptions is cohered with sorrel or foxy hair.
4
Having Miles knocked off bothered me, and then you birds cracking foxy.
5
He was too foxy to be driven back into that suspicious neighbourhood.
6
He was impressive and capable looking but appeared too crafty, too foxy.
7
All he's got is a teasing slow ball and a foxy head.
8
But Dick was too foxy to begin by asking questions about me.
9
He was accompanied by some other musicians and 2 foxy girl singers.
10
I owe you nothing. His sly, foxy eyes darted sideways at me.
11
Well, you're a foxy one, you are, if ever there was one.
12
But even foxy investors have found the hunting grounds in world stocks difficult.
13
The edges of the leaves are rather of a foxy tint.
14
The Fox set out upon his search, in his foxy way.
15
It's the brainy, foxy fellows that stay back in the camps.
16
The foxy lawyer was more decided in his opinion than even the doctor.
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United Kingdom
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