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Reynardian en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the folk character of Reynard the fox and his mannerisms; cunning.
    • The Chabon kid had that Reynardian way of looking inattentive when he was measuring someone—in this case, my mother—to the millimeter. 2017, Moonglow : a novel, page 332:
    • This was Mr. Fox's position ; but he was not a man to submit tamely to an adverse fate — even the fox when driven to the wall will show his teeth — and his human name-sake was not false to this Reynardian quality. 1909, A beautiful rebel: a romance of Upper Canada in eighteen hundred and twelve, page 200:
    • Common sense compels us to believe that the whole affair was merely a ruse by which Yale, with true Reynardian craft, hoped to win the cup. 1888, The Harvard Advocate, page 130:

Synonyms

shrewd · cunning · sly as a fox · sly fox