dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/fox_MWT.json
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{
"fox":{
"a lovely woman":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she's a real fox \u2014smart, sassy, and sexy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bag",
"frump",
"crone",
"hag",
"witch"
],
"related":[
"belle",
"charmer",
"peach",
"bathing beauty",
"cover girl",
"pinup girl",
"houri",
"cutie-pie",
"dish",
"doll",
"dreamboat",
"hottie",
"looker",
"pretty",
"coquette",
"femme fatale",
"siren",
"temptress",
"vamp"
],
"synonyms":[
"babe",
"beauty",
"beauty queen",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"cutie",
"cutey",
"dolly bird",
"enchantress",
"eyeful",
"goddess",
"honey",
"knockout",
"queen",
"stunner"
]
},
"a physically attractive person":{
"antonyms":[
"dog"
],
"examples":[
"both he and his twin sister are foxes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"beauty",
"eyeful",
"goddess",
"lovely",
"stunner",
"beefcake",
"hunk",
"stud",
"superstud"
],
"synonyms":[
"babe",
"cutie",
"cutey",
"dish",
"doll",
"dreamboat",
"glamour-puss",
"hottie",
"knockout",
"looker",
"showstopper",
"ten"
]
},
"to get the better of through cleverness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"no confidence man will ever fox me and get my hard-earned money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"outguess",
"second-guess",
"baffle",
"balk",
"circumvent",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"thwart",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"conquer",
"defeat",
"lick",
"overcome",
"bar",
"block",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct"
],
"synonyms":[
"outfox",
"outmaneuver",
"outslick",
"outsmart",
"outthink",
"outwit",
"overreach"
]
},
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she won't be foxed by such telemarketing tricks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assure",
"reassure",
"satisfy",
"enlighten",
"inform"
],
"related":[
"stick",
"stump",
"weird out",
"abash",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"agitate",
"bother",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"stun",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"beguile",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"humbug",
"misguide",
"mislead",
"snow",
"string along",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"synonyms":[
"addle",
"baffle",
"bamboozle",
"beat",
"befog",
"befuddle",
"bemuse",
"bewilder",
"buffalo",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discombobulate",
"disorient",
"flummox",
"fuddle",
"get",
"gravel",
"maze",
"muddle",
"muddy",
"mystify",
"perplex",
"pose",
"puzzle",
"vex"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"foxed":{
"to get the better of through cleverness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"no confidence man will ever fox me and get my hard-earned money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"outguessed",
"second-guessed",
"baffled",
"balked",
"circumvented",
"foiled",
"frustrated",
"thwarted",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"conquered",
"defeated",
"licked",
"overcame",
"barred",
"blocked",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed"
],
"synonyms":[
"outfoxed",
"outmaneuvered",
"outslicked",
"outsmarted",
"outthought",
"outwitted",
"overreached"
]
},
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she won't be foxed by such telemarketing tricks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"reassured",
"satisfied",
"enlightened",
"informed"
],
"related":[
"stuck",
"stumped",
"weirded out",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"stunned",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"beguiled",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"humbugged",
"misguided",
"misled",
"snowed",
"strung along",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"synonyms":[
"addled",
"baffled",
"bamboozled",
"beat",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"buffaloed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discombobulated",
"disoriented",
"flummoxed",
"fuddled",
"got",
"graveled",
"gravelled",
"mazed",
"muddied",
"muddled",
"mystified",
"perplexed",
"posed",
"puzzled",
"vexed",
"vext"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"foxiness":{
"exceptional discernment and judgment especially in practical matters":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"lacks the foxiness needed to make it in dog-eat-dog world of show business"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"greenness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"innocence",
"naiveness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"simplicity",
"unsophistication",
"unworldliness",
"brainlessness",
"density",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dumbness",
"fatuity",
"foolishness",
"half-wittedness",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"senselessness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"vacuity",
"witlessness"
],
"related":[
"discernment",
"insight",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"percipience",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sapience",
"wisdom",
"artfulness",
"artifice",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"deviousness",
"guile",
"slickness",
"slyness",
"sneakiness",
"subtleness",
"subtlety",
"wiliness",
"brain(s)",
"gray matter",
"intellect",
"reason",
"sense"
],
"synonyms":[
"acumen",
"astuteness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"canniness",
"clear-sightedness",
"hardheadedness",
"intelligence",
"keenness",
"knowingness",
"sharpness",
"shrewdness",
"wit"
]
},
"skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it did not take an incredible amount of foxiness on his part to get you to spill the beans"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"calculation",
"care",
"design",
"savvy",
"sharpness",
"shrewdness",
"cleverness",
"ingeniousness",
"ingenuity",
"inventiveness",
"ease",
"facility",
"finesse",
"deceitfulness",
"duplicity",
"shiftiness",
"underhandedness"
],
"synonyms":[
"artfulness",
"artifice",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"canniness",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"deviousness",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"slickness",
"slyness",
"sneakiness",
"subtleness",
"subtlety",
"wiliness"
]
},
"the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery":{
"antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"forthrightness",
"good faith",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"sincerity"
],
"examples":[
"an imposter of such formidable foxiness that a movie was made of his entertaining escapades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"frankness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plainspokenness",
"honesty",
"probity",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"solidity",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"decency",
"goodness",
"incorruptibility",
"integrity",
"righteousness",
"truthfulness",
"uprightness",
"virtuousness"
],
"related":[
"equivocation",
"lying",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"fraudulence",
"hanky-panky",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"mountebankery",
"obliquity",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"swindling",
"trickery",
"wile",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"untruth",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"sanctimoniousness",
"two-facedness",
"artfulness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"deviousness",
"shrewdness",
"treacherousness",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"covertness",
"furtiveness",
"secrecy",
"shadiness",
"sneakiness",
"stealthiness",
"oiliness",
"shiftiness",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"cheating",
"cozenage",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"crookedness",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"fraud",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"wiliness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"foxy":{
"clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means":{
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"guileless",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"undesigning"
],
"examples":[
"the oft-told story of the foxy flatterer who works her way up the ladder of success by stepping on people as she goes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"obvious",
"open",
"patent",
"plain",
"public",
"unconcealed",
"aboveboard",
"candid",
"direct",
"forthright",
"frank",
"honest",
"natural",
"outspoken",
"plainspoken",
"real",
"simple",
"sincere",
"straightforward",
"unaffected",
"unpretending",
"unpretentious",
"unvarnished",
"childlike",
"impressionable",
"simpleminded",
"unsophisticated",
"unworldly",
"unforced",
"unstudied",
"trustful",
"trusting"
],
"related":[
"astute",
"facile",
"glib",
"sharp",
"crooked",
"deceitful",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"fraudulent",
"insinuating",
"knavish",
"Machiavellian",
"oblique",
"serpentine",
"shady",
"shifty",
"slippery",
"sneaky",
"treacherous",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"unscrupulous",
"backhanded",
"double-dealing",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"left-handed",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"smooth-tongued",
"two-faced",
"circuitous",
"circular",
"roundabout",
"clandestine",
"concealed",
"covert",
"furtive",
"hugger-mugger",
"secret",
"stealthy",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"calculating",
"plotting"
],
"synonyms":[
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"cute",
"designing",
"devious",
"dodgy",
"guileful",
"scheming",
"shrewd",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"tricky",
"wily"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"foxing":{
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"she won't be foxed by such telemarketing tricks"
],
"synonyms":[
"addling",
"baffling",
"bamboozling",
"beating",
"befogging",
"befuddling",
"bemusing",
"bewildering",
"buffaloing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discombobulating",
"disorienting",
"flummoxing",
"fuddling",
"getting",
"graveling",
"gravelling",
"mazing",
"muddling",
"muddying",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"posing",
"puzzling",
"vexing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sticking",
"stumping",
"weirding out",
"abashing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"agitating",
"bothering",
"chagrining",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"stunning",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"beguiling",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"humbugging",
"misguiding",
"misleading",
"snowing",
"stringing along",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assuring",
"reassuring",
"satisfying",
"enlightening",
"informing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get the better of through cleverness":{
"examples":[
"no confidence man will ever fox me and get my hard-earned money"
],
"synonyms":[
"outfoxing",
"outmaneuvering",
"outslicking",
"outsmarting",
"outthinking",
"outwitting",
"overreaching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outguessing",
"second-guessing",
"baffling",
"balking",
"circumventing",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"thwarting",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"tricking",
"conquering",
"defeating",
"licking",
"overcoming",
"barring",
"blocking",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"obstructing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fox-trotting":{
"as in waltzing , jitterbugging":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boogying",
"boogeying",
"bopping",
"gavotting",
"jigging",
"jitterbugging",
"jiving",
"mamboing",
"polkaing",
"shagging",
"shimmying",
"shuffling",
"tangoing",
"tap-dancing",
"twisting",
"waltzing",
"prancing",
"strutting",
"tripping",
"treading",
"dancing",
"footing (it)",
"hoofing (it)",
"stepping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fox-trot":{
"as in waltz , jitterbug":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boogie",
"boogy",
"boogey",
"bop",
"gavotte",
"jig",
"jitterbug",
"jive",
"mambo",
"polka",
"shag",
"shimmy",
"shuffle",
"tango",
"tap-dance",
"twist",
"waltz",
"prance",
"strut",
"trip",
"tread",
"dance",
"foot (it)",
"hoof (it)",
"step"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}