as in shrew
a bad-tempered scolding woman
why anyone puts up with that vixen's sharp tongue is beyond me
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She’s dressed like an Old Hollywood vixen: wearing a sleek, tan trench coat paired with leather boots, oversized sunglasses and a headscarf.
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
Red foxes are a common sight at the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia—in 2016, one particularly personable vixen was even deemed the official mascot of the graveyard.
—Katy Kelleher, Outside Online, 27 June 2024
As the story unfolds, Grande's vixen, who has prepared a love potion with a bubblegum pink hue worthy of Wicked's Glinda for her city's mayor, pursues young official Max Starling (Penn Badgley).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 June 2024
One sis happens to be annoyingly sweet and clueless, the other a wild vixen with an out-of-control libido.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 8 May 2024
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
Red foxes are a common sight at the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia—in 2016, one particularly personable vixen was even deemed the official mascot of the graveyard.
—Katy Kelleher, Outside Online, 27 June 2024
As the story unfolds, Grande's vixen, who has prepared a love potion with a bubblegum pink hue worthy of Wicked's Glinda for her city's mayor, pursues young official Max Starling (Penn Badgley).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 June 2024
One sis happens to be annoyingly sweet and clueless, the other a wild vixen with an out-of-control libido.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 8 May 2024
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“Vixen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vixen. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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