A vixenish old woman. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Her eyes turned, and she fixed a vixenish look upon Miss Eunice. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 6] Reference
‘Oh! You perwerse creetur!’ exclaimed one of the vixenish ladies. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
‘Most wotes carries the day!’ said one of the vixenish ladies at length. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
A vixenish landlady from the midst of a group of screaming children cried to me. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
Other people's children are brought up politely and properly, and not in this vixenish style of yours. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
It is not a feminine perfume, at least not feminine in a sweet and dainty or come-hither and vixenish, obvious, way. From Wordnik.com. [Perfume Review: Ormonde Jayne Ormonde Woman] Reference
She has a vixenish temper, if she should get waked up to imagine herself 'wronged,' or any such school-girl nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
With vixenish spite will they claim to be folded, like her, to my breast, to be tenderly lifted on outstretched arms?. From Wordnik.com. [Peer Gynt] Reference
When she pushed him away or smacked his head back and forth between her hands it looked more cutely sassy than vixenish. From Wordnik.com. [Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Top 10, Alvin Ailey, and Bollywood] Reference
Hastings and Eileen Fulton (who joined "ATWT" in May 1960 as the vixenish Lisa Grimaldi) are now the senior cast members. From Wordnik.com. ['As The World Turns' Stops Production After 54 Years] Reference
The tones of her voice and the expression of her face were so exactly like those of a scolding, vixenish woman that she caused many. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
And so the vile, vixenish virago wished the cat was dead. From Wordnik.com. [Queer Stories for Boys and Girls] Reference
She was in her most vixenish mood, full of life and fight. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of the Forest] Reference
There came a vixenish gleam into the old woman's faded eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Wharf by the Docks A Novel] Reference
'I am glad of it,' with a vixenish sharpness that surprised me. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Max] Reference
'Oh! You perwerse creetur!' exclaimed one of the vixenish ladies. From Wordnik.com. [The Pickwick Papers] Reference
She's not intended be vixenish or any sort of replacement for Edie. From Wordnik.com. [Desperate Blog] Reference
'Most wotes carries the day!' said one of the vixenish ladies at length. From Wordnik.com. [The Pickwick Papers] Reference
RISQUÉ At Ricky's, women's Halloween costumes are nothing if not vixenish. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The girl was the most stubborn, unreasonable, vixenish little puss I ever saw. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Billy's Decision] Reference
Hortensio of Katharine's vixenish disposition, which determines him to woo her. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference
There is Tom Smart's "vixenish mare," quite an intelligent character in her way. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Studies] Reference
There's also Scarlett Johansson's Anna, a vixenish yoga instructor with mermaid tresses. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
They are vixenish plagues of character that distinguish me from more conventional saints. From Wordnik.com. [The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance] Reference
This vixenish old craft is behaving with a great deal too much suavity to suit my notions. From Wordnik.com. [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference
Certainly not -- after the vixenish manner in which you handed the bedroom candle to Miss Melbury. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels] Reference
As for you "-- she turned in a vixenish manner on Anne --" I hope you will be put in gaol some day. From Wordnik.com. [A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story] Reference
Newton's character, vixenish receptionist Amanda, has become more than just Mode's prima donna in training. From Wordnik.com. Reference
When the bit is in and the bridle properly padlocked the most vixenish can only utter inarticulate murmurs. From Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
She was perfectly conscious that she was behaving like a vixenish child, but she could not restrain herself. From Wordnik.com. [Sir George Tressady — Volume II] Reference
When he gave me his switch, the vixenish animal came at once into subjection to save herself a good whipping. From Wordnik.com. [Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem] Reference
'Aggrawatin' thing! 'said the vixenish lady last-mentioned, darting a withering glance at the heavy gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Pickwick Papers] Reference
The deacon's wife grew sick, and the vile, vinegar-tongued, vixenish virago said that the deacon was an old brute. From Wordnik.com. [Queer Stories for Boys and Girls] Reference
Played it from the moment he entered his house until the moment he daily disappeared, astride the vixenish undersized cayuse. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Trail Divides] Reference
The slaves, silent when the greenish eyes and tight, vixenish face were by, chattered, laughed, and sung when they were left alone. From Wordnik.com. [Audrey] Reference
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