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Reynardian
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English
Adjective
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Of or pertaining to the folk character of Reynard the fox and his mannerisms; cunning.
en cunning shrewd sly fox sly as a fox
en The Harvard Advocate 1888 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. 130 https://archive.org/details/harvardadvocate00univgoog/page/n350/mode/2up?q=reynardian
en A beautiful rebel: a romance of Upper Canada in eighteen hundred and twelve 1909 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. 200 https://archive.org/details/beautifulrebelro00campuoft/page/n203/mode/2up?q=reynardian
en Moonglow : a novel 2017 The Chabon kid had that Reynardian way of looking inattentive when he was measuring someone—in this case, my mother—to the millimeter. 332 https://archive.org/details/moonglownovel0000chab_q5w4/page/332/mode/2up?q=reynardian