Word Meanings - FOXLIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• ARTFULNESS
  The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.
• CUNNINGLY
  In a cunning manner; with cunning.
• CUNNINGMAN
  A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras.
• ARTFUL
  1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton. 2. Artificial; imitative. Addison. 3. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He too artful a writer to set down
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• ARTFULLY
  In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• CUNNING
  1. Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii.
• CUNNER
  A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• UNCUNNINGLY
  Ignorantly.
• OVERCUNNING
  Exceedingly or excessively cunning.
• UNARTFUL
  Lacking art or skill; artless. Congreve. -- Un*art"ful*ly, adv. Swift. Burke.
• SCUNNER
  To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.
• UNCUNNING
  Ignorant. I am young and uncunning, as thou wost . Chaucer.
• STARTFUL
  Apt to start; skittish.