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Vixenly   Listen
adjective
Vixenly  adj.  Like a vixen; vixenish.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Vixenly" Quotes from Famous Books



... fierceness of her beak and eye, and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensive community; and especially to warn all citizens careful of their safety against intruding on the premises which she overshadows with her wings. Nevertheless, vixenly as she looks, many people are seeking at this very moment to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eiderdown pillow. But she has no great tenderness even in her best of moods, and, sooner ...
— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne



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