foxiness


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Synonyms for foxiness

shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

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SCHMOOF are an electro-pop duo whose major appeal (let's be brutally frank about this) is the PVC-clad foxiness of singer Sarah.
As for George being a Berlinian fox, let me say that his foxiness was in the variety and facility of language that he used to explain his original thinking.
So, in the spirit of that higher foxiness, allow me to suggest that Professor Noll has not fully considered all of the forces, social as well as intellectual, that might have transformed Protestant theology between the Revolution and the Civil War.
This "primal" terroir aspect varies somewhat by grape variety (the chief varieties in Tokaj-Hegyalja are the Furmint and Harslevel), but it speaks to the strength of this feature that following phylloxera in the late 1 800s, it was readily perceptible even in experimental varietal Othello wines, their "foxiness" notwithstanding.
Once the rest of the instruments have joined in, someone -- often the senior mestre ("master") present -- bellows "Ie!" and then sings a solo known as a ladainha ("litany") a eulogy to, typically, capoeira itself, the berimbau, or the foxiness of the girls on such-and-such a baiano island (PC has yet to purge capoeira lyrics).