as in shrew
a bad-tempered scolding woman
why anyone puts up with that vixen's sharp tongue is beyond me
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Have no fear, as the love affair between Elvis impersonator Sailor Ripley and vivacious vixen Lula Fortune will also be showing at Prince Charles Cinema in London on Saturday, February 8 and Monday, February 10.
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 2 Feb. 2025
With his entourage of ballers and video vixens, his retinue of security, his talent for curation, Puff was the ringmaster of relevancy, the pied piper of fun and the force at the very center of cultural power.
—Amy Dubois Barnett, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
At a baseline, video vixens confirmed that Black women deserve all of the episodic things shown in the music videos.
—Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 24 Sep. 2024
Those three vixens see the event as a chance to launch their influencer careers; they’re pressured to succeed by Annabelle’s ambitious stage mom, Janette (Wilson), who operates a salon called Curl Up N Dye out of her garage.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Sep. 2024
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 2 Feb. 2025
With his entourage of ballers and video vixens, his retinue of security, his talent for curation, Puff was the ringmaster of relevancy, the pied piper of fun and the force at the very center of cultural power.
—Amy Dubois Barnett, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
At a baseline, video vixens confirmed that Black women deserve all of the episodic things shown in the music videos.
—Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 24 Sep. 2024
Those three vixens see the event as a chance to launch their influencer careers; they’re pressured to succeed by Annabelle’s ambitious stage mom, Janette (Wilson), who operates a salon called Curl Up N Dye out of her garage.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vixen
shrew
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Especially early on in the campaign, when I was being attacked as being angry, a shrew, demeaning my husband — all these labels were coming in on me that were essentially trying to rob me of that femininity.—
Janine Rubenstein,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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The 2025 list of extinctions includes a bird, a shrew and a species of snail, among others.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Vixen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vixen. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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