a. [f. as prec. + LIKE a.] Like a fox; esp. crafty, cunning.
1577–87. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1808), V. 577. This Mudiard and his companions, imbued with more than foxlike conditions, did (deceiuing their keepers) returne to their owne caues.
1654. Trapp, Comm., Job xxxiii. 26. Reconciliations are for the most part Fox-like friendships.
1868. Darwin, Anim. & Pl., I. i. 25. The domestic dogs on the coast of Guinea are fox-like animals, and are dumb.
