foxly

comparative more foxly · superlative most foxly

1. archaicSly like a fox; foxlike.

   His foxly object was attained. The attention of the hunters was diverted.

   1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix

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   But the children of this world have worldly policy, foxly craft, lionlike cruelty, power to do hurt more than either aspis or basiliscus, engendering and doing all things fraudulently, […]

   1968, Hugh Latimer, Allan Griffith Chester, Selected Sermons of Hugh Latimer

   Howe and the army settled into New York where the population was friendly, including a huge contingent of prostitutes whom both Americans and British described as a terrifying lot: “bitch foxly jades, hogs, strums.”

   2008, Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History