adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a vixenish or ill-tempered manner.
1847. [M. W. Savage], Bachelor of Albany (1848), 174. Barker of the Albany!is he the man? cried the termagant Mrs. Harry, vixenishly and exultingly.
1880. Meredith, Tragic Com., xviii. Her mother treated her vixenishly, snubbing her for a word.
1891. Baring-Gould, In Troubadour-Land, ii. 28. [He] endeavoured to get hold of her hand. She snatched it away vixenishly.