vulpine

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The Word of the Day for March 30 is:

vulpine   \VUL-pyne\   adjective
     1 : of, relating to, or resembling a fox 
    *2 : foxy, crafty 

Example sentence:
     The stranger's vulpine smile revealed his cunning mind and 
greedy heart, and Hazel knew instantly that she shouldn't trust 
him.

Did you know?
     In _Walden_ (1854), Henry David Thoreau described foxes 
crying out "raggedly and demoniacally" as they hunted through 
the winter forest, and he wrote, "Sometimes one came near to my 
window, attracted by my light, barked a vulpine curse at me, and 
then retreated."  Thoreau's was far from the first use 
of "vulpine"; English writers have been applying that adjective 
to the foxlike or crafty since the 15th century. Its Latin 
parent is the adjective "vulpinus," which itself comes from the 
noun "vulpes," meaning "fox."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.