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foxly en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English *foxlich (compare Middle English foxliche (adverb)), equivalent to fox + -ly.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Sly like a fox; foxlike.
   • His foxly object was attained. The attention of the hunters was diverted. 1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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