FOXINESS • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Foxiness

... nothing in it. Fighting the devil with fire is all foolishness, because that's the one weapon with which he's more expert than any one else. I usually find that it's pretty good policy to oppose suspicion with candor, foxiness with openness, indifference with earnestness. When you deal squarely with a crooked man you scare him to death, because he thinks you're springing some new and extra-deep ...

— Old Gorgon Graham - More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer

... up my mind to fly at once to the convent," she said, "with my foxiness and other evil qualities. If it was my fault that one man ...

— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith