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English
Adjective
Reynardian (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the folk character of Reynard the fox and his mannerisms; cunning.
- Synonyms: cunning, shrewd, sly fox, sly as a fox
1888, The Harvard Advocate, page 130:Common sense compels us to believe that the whole affair was merely a ruse by which Yale, with true Reynardian craft, hoped to win the cup.
1909, A beautiful rebel: a romance of Upper Canada in eighteen hundred and twelve, page 200:This was Mr. Fox's position ; but he was not a man to submit tamely to an adverse fate — even the fox when driven to the wall will show his teeth — and his human name-sake was not false to this Reynardian quality.
2017, Moonglow : a novel, page 332:The Chabon kid had that Reynardian way of looking inattentive when he was measuring someone—in this case, my mother—to the millimeter.