vixenishly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a vixenish or ill-tempered manner.
| 1845 Bachelor of Albany (1848) 174 ‘Barker of the Albany!..is he the man?’ cried the termagant Mrs. Harry, vixenishly and exultingly. 1880 Meredith Tragic Com. xviii, Her mother treated her vixenishly, snubbing her for a word. 1891 Baring-Gould In Troubadour-Land ii. 28 [He] endeavoured to get hold of her hand. She snatched it away vixenishly. |