vixenish s shrewish and malicious a vixenish old woman Usage(s) With every vixenish wile she can think of, Julie tries to satisfy her longing and her hate. Inside the Greer Garson roles Streep usually plays, a vixenish Carole Lombard is screaming to be cut loose. He is chained to a vixenish wife (Anne Jackson) who spews venom at him and pretends to be a dying invalid.