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foxy adj. 1 clever, sly, cunning, wily, crafty, tricky, guileful,
shifty, devious, slippery, smooth, slick, artful, resourceful,
ingenious, calculating, designing, plotting, scheming,
disingenuous, knowing, shrewd, sharp, astute, wise; foxlike,
vulpine; Colloq cagey or cagy: Be careful dealing with him, for
he can be foxy. 2 attractive, alluring, seductive, vampish,
Colloq sexy: Margo is a very foxy lady.
6.6 fracas...
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fracas n. 1 trouble, disturbance, commotion, rumpus, fuss, hubbub,
pandemonium, hullabaloo, uproar, disorder, scramble, scuffle,
brawl, rough-house, rough-and-tumble, turmoil, tumult,
free-for-all, riot, fray, brouhaha, mˆl‚e or melee, Law affray;
Brit scrum, US brannigan; Colloq ruckus, punch-up, Slang Brit
bovver: It was football hooligans who caused the fracas after
the game. 2 argument, disagreement, quarrel, dispute, discord,
wrangle, altercation, squabble, spat, tiff, fight, row, tussle,
Donnybrook, brawl, Colloq barney, scrap: After the referee's
ruling, a fracas broke out.
fracture n. 1 break, breakage, breaking: An old fracture makes him walk
with a limp. 2 break, crack, split, rupture, breach,
separation, cleavage, division, rift: We can permit no fracture
in the united front we present to the voters.
--v. 3 break, rupture, crack, split, breach, separate, cleave:
He fractured three vertebrae in the accident.
fragile adj. frail, breakable, brittle, frangible, delicate, dainty,
thin, light, slight, weak, feeble, infirm, decrepit; tenuous,
shaky, flimsy, rickety, unsubstantial or insubstantial: Because
of her great age, her bones had become fragile. The argument in
favour of acquittal is very fragile, indeed.
fragment n. 1 piece, portion, part, chip, shard or sherd, splinter,
sliver, scrap, bit, speck, snippet, morsel, crumb, particle,
remnant, shred, snatch: A fragment of the airliner was found
twenty miles from the crash. 2 fragments. smithereens; debris,