What is another word for vulpine?

Pronunciation: [vˈʌlpa͡ɪn] (IPA)

Vulpine is a word that refers to something related to foxes- their behavior, appearance, or features. Some synonyms for this word include foxy, sly, cunning, crafty, and wily. These words are used to describe someone or something that is sneaky or clever. Vulpine is also associated with being quick-witted and astute, so other synonyms might include intelligent, observant, or perceptive. In some cases, it can be used to mean treacherous or deceitful, in which case other synonyms might include disloyal, dishonest, or untrustworthy. Regardless of the context it is used in, synonyms for vulpine always suggest a sense of cunning and cleverness in one way or another.

What are the hypernyms for Vulpine?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Vulpine

Then, temporarily, his vulpine face showed avaricious hope, and then apprehension.
"Space Viking"
Henry Beam Piper
Presently he changed the tune to one of extraordinary rapidity: this evidently astonished his vulpine audience, which began to leap about.
"Afar in the Forest"
W.H.G. Kingston
To the vulpine characteristics developed under the shadow of the Medici there were now added qualities of a more virile stamp.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose

Famous quotes with Vulpine

  • There must remain no neutral ground to serve as a refuge for lawbreakers, and especially for lawbreakers of great wealth, who can hire the vulpine legal cunning which will teach them how to avoid both jurisdictions.
    Theodore Roosevelt
  • If Governments neglect to invite what noble intellect there is, then too surely all intellect, not omnipotent to resist bad influences, will tend to become beaverish ignoble intellect; and quitting high aims, which seem shut up from it, will help itself forward in the way of making money and such like; or will even sink to be sham intellect, helping itself by methods which are not only beaverish but vulpine, and so "ignoble" as not to have common honesty.
    Thomas Carlyle
  • If a soul is born with divine intelligence, and has its lips touched with hallowed fire, in consecration for high enterprises under the sun, this young soul will find the question asked of him by England every hour and moment: "Canst thou turn thy human intelligence into the beaver sort, and make honest contrivance, and accumulation of capital by it? If so, do it; and avoid the vulpine kind, which I don't recommend. Honest triumphs in engineering and machinery await thee; scrip awaits thee, commercial successes, kingship in the counting-room, on the stock-exchange;—thou shalt be the envy of surrounding flunkies, and collect into a heap more gold than a dray-horse can draw.And, truly, good consequences follow out of it: who can be blind to them? Half of a most excellent and opulent result is realized to us in this way; baleful only when it sets up (as too often now) for being the whole result.
    Thomas Carlyle
  • Let us honor all honest human power of contrivance in its degree. The beaver intellect, so long as it steadfastly refuses to be vulpine, and answers the tempter pointing out short routes to it with an honest "No, no," is truly respectable to me; and many a highflying speaker and singer whom I have known, has appeared to me much less of a developed man than certain of my mill-owning, agricultural, commercial, mechanical, or otherwise industrial friends, who have held their peace all their days and gone on in the silent state. If a man can keep his intellect silent, and make it even into honest beaverism, several very manful moralities, in danger of wreck on other courses, may comport well with that, and give it a genuine and partly human character; and I will tell him, in these days he may do far worse with himself and his intellect than change it into beaverism, and make honest money with it.
    Thomas Carlyle
  • Medicine, guarded too by preliminary impediments, and frightful medusa-heads of quackery, which deter many generous souls from entering, is of the half-articulate professions, and does not much invite the ardent kinds of ambition. The intellect required for medicine might be wholly human, and indeed should by all rules be,—the profession of the Human Healer being radically a sacred one and connected with the highest priesthoods, or rather being itself the outcome and acme of all priesthoods, and divinest conquests of intellect here below. As will appear one day, when men take off their old monastic and ecclesiastic spectacles, and look with eyes again! In essence the Physician's task is always heroic, eminently human: but in practice most unluckily at present we find it too become in good part beaverish,—yielding a money-result alone. And what of it is not beaverish,—does not that too go mainly to ingenious talking, publishing of yourself, ingratiating of yourself; a partly human exercise or waste of intellect, and, alas, a partly vulpine ditto;—making the once sacred... Human Healer, more impossible for us than ever!
    Thomas Carlyle

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