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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of, pertaining to, or resembling a vixen; cross; ill-tempered; snarling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective shrewish and malicious

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Examples

  • Well, that would be "a chair in which scolding and vixenish wives were formerly securely fastened, to receive the punishment of being ducked in water."

    Fire escapism 2010

  • Hastings and Eileen Fulton (who joined "ATWT" in May 1960 as the vixenish Lisa Grimaldi) are now the senior cast members.

    'As The World Turns' Stops Production After 54 Years 2010

  • Wow, Conservative Spokesperson, Ann Coulter, actually sounded like she was about to cry in that clip, while calling Mrs. Edwards "a worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag."

    Ann Coulter Loses It, Calls Elizabeth Edwards A "Harridan" 2009

  • With vixenish spite will they claim to be folded, like her, to my breast, to be tenderly lifted on outstretched arms?

    Peer Gynt 2008

  • With vixenish spite will they claim to be folded, like her, to my breast, to be tenderly lifted on outstretched arms?

    Peer Gynt 2008

  • It is not a feminine perfume, at least not feminine in a sweet and dainty or come-hither and vixenish, obvious, way.

    Perfume Review: Ormonde Jayne Ormonde Woman Marina Geigert 2008

  • When she pushed him away or smacked his head back and forth between her hands it looked more cutely sassy than vixenish.

    Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Top 10, Alvin Ailey, and Bollywood 2008

  • It is not a feminine perfume, at least not feminine in a sweet and dainty or come-hither and vixenish, obvious, way.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Marina Geigert 2008

  • ‘Very well, Mr Browdie!’ said Miss Squeers, hot and flushed from the recent encounter, but vixenish to the last; ‘you’ve been and excited our boys to run away.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • Mrs. Sowerberry emerged from a little room behind the shop, and presented the form of a short, then, squeezed – up woman, with a vixenish countenance.

    Oliver Twist 2007

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