| 词汇 | vixenish |
| 释义 | vixenish adjective uk /ˈvɪk.sən.ɪʃ/ us /ˈvɪk.sən.ɪʃ/ (of a woman) determined and difficult to control, sometimes in an unpleasant way: （女人）凶悍的，好吵架的;泼妇似的 In her latest movie she plays the role of a vixenish young woman.在她最新一部电影中，她扮演了一个凶悍的年轻女子。 Stubborn and determined people careerist diehard driving force fanatic fighter force go-getter hardheadedly holdout tiger tigerish tigerishly tough cookie toughness Examples of vixenishvixenish She was vixenish, she was selfish, she was dishonest and grasping; but she was religious. From Project Gutenberg There came a vixenish gleam into the old woman's faded eyes. From Project Gutenberg And so the vile, vixenish virago wished the cat was dead. From Project Gutenberg The deacon's wife grew sick, and the vile, vinegar-tongued, vixenish virago said that the deacon was an old brute. From Project Gutenberg She was in her most vixenish mood, full of life and fight. From Project Gutenberg She always smiled sweetly when she was feeling particularly vixenish. From Project Gutenberg Like the shrill biting talk of a vixenish wife, it would have compelled you to "take a little something" by way of dulling your sensibility. From Project Gutenberg The old lady's eyes assumed a vixenish expression and her smile widened till it was a sly, almost diabolical grin. From Project Gutenberg She has a vixenish temper, if she should get waked up to imagine herself 'wronged,' or any such school-girl nonsense. From Project Gutenberg I did not believe that she was vixenish at heart. From Project Gutenberg As she stood by his side behind the bar, although she was tremulous with excitement, the look with which she had faced the crowd was rather vixenish than frightened. From Project Gutenberg He was a big, fair man, with loosely hung limbs, and his wife--poor little baggage--had been a tiny creature, vixenish at her worst, kittenish at her best. From Project Gutenberg It was really a sad blow to be told that that disagreeable, vixenish trumpeter, who awakened the workers each morning, was so closely related to him. From Project Gutenberg She has always had the name of ruling her husband, and her scowling, swarthy visage, and evil-looking eyes, seem to substantiate her claim to possessing strong, vixenish proclivities. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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