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  • n  shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

  • A very pukka Sahib general (played with quaint and artful foxiness by Anthony Quayle) comes home from liquidating the white man's bumbling in Malaysia, only to find that his son .
  • He implied that by re-signing he had fooled II Duce and the Fhrer and claimed that had not his foxiness avoided French turmoil the Fascist powers would now be striking even .
  • Less convincing than his generosity was Cineman Fox's foxiness.

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