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Synonyms & Antonyms of foxiness
1
skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means
- it did not take an incredible amount of foxiness on his part to get you to spill the beans
Synonyms for foxiness
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- caginess
- (also cageyness),
- canniness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deviousness,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- slickness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- wiliness
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2
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
- an imposter of such formidable foxiness that a movie was made of his entertaining escapades
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3
exceptional discernment and judgment especially in practical matters
- lacks the foxiness needed to make it in dog-eat-dog world of show business
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“Foxiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foxiness. Accessed 24 Oct. 2021.
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