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Another word for foxy

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Adjective

  1. Deceitfully clever

    See also:

    means

    honest

    ability

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Another word for foxy

Modifier

  1. Shrewd

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    intelligent

  2. Cunning

    See also:

    sly

  3. *Physically attractive

    See also:

    sly

    handsome

    charming

    beautiful

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Sentence Examples

  • The name is extended to include the sing-sing or defassa waterbuck (C. def assa), a wides p read species, without the white ring on the buttocks, and represented by several local races, one of which is foxy red while a second is greyish.

  • coast of Africa, takes its name from a mane of longish hair on the throat and neck; the hair on the body being also longer than in the ordinary long-legged sheep. This breed is frequently black or brown and white; but in a small sub-breed from the Cameroons the general colour is chestnut or foxy red, with the face, ears, buttocks, lower surface of tail and under-parts black.

  • The "foxy red" colouring of the typical race of north-western Europe is too well known to require description.

  • REEDBUCK (Dutch rietbok), the popular name of a foxy red South African antelope (Cervicapra arundineum) of medium size, with a moderately long bushy tail, a bare gland-patch behind the ear, and in the male rather short horns which bend forwards in a regular curve.

  • This species is about the size of a red-deer, with a foxy red coat with black legs.

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