different between foxy vs dishonest
foxy
English
Etymology
From fox +? -y.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?ksi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f?ksi/
- Rhymes: -?ksi
- Hyphenation: fox?y
Adjective
foxy (comparative foxier, superlative foxiest)
- Having the qualities of a fox.
- Cunning, sly.
- Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
- (of a person, especially a woman) Reddish-brown haired.
- (art) Using too much of the reddish-brown colours.
- 1844, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Lectures on Painting and Design:
- His eye for colour was so exquisite that I do not think there is a single instance in all his works of a heated tint which is called foxy. This cannot be said of Rubens or Rembrandt […]
- 1870, Frederick Peter Seguier, A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Works of Painters:
- Although the skies of Brydael's pictures are often broken with rather heavy masses of orange and yellow clouds, yet, taking him altogether, he was not a 'foxy' painter; on the contrary, there is a silvery coolness about some of his pictures which pleases us.
- 1844, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Lectures on Painting and Design:
- (of wine) Having an animal-like odour.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:sexy
Translations
foxy From the web:
- what foxy means
- what foxy looks like
- what foxes eat
- what foxes eat in minecraft
- what foxes are endangered
- what foxes look like
- what foxes live in the desert
- what foxes do
dishonest
English
Etymology
From Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. Synchronically, dis- +? honest.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??s?n?st/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??s?n?st/
Adjective
dishonest (comparative more dishonest, superlative most dishonest)
- Not honest.
- Interfering with honesty.
- (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
- c. 1560,Thomas North, Archontorologion
- speake 'dishonest word
- c. 1560,Thomas North, Archontorologion
- (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
- Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.
Antonyms
- honest
Related terms
- dishonesty
Translations
Further reading
- dishonest at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- hedonists, stonished
dishonest From the web:
- what dishonesty does to a relationship
- what dishonesty does to your brain
- dishonesty meaning
- what dishonesty does
- what does dishonesty mean
- what is dishonesty in the workplace
- what causes dishonesty
- what is dishonesty in civic education
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