The word "outfox" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea of outsmarting someone. For example, "He tried to outfox his opponent at the debate, but failed to make his point in the end."
George Osborne is to tighten the rules for tackling the budget deficit as he seeks to ensure that Britain can run a surplus in the next parliament in a move designed to outfox Ed Balls in the runup to the election.
As captain, he deployed his darts for just the one over, but that was enough to snare the dangerous Niall O'Brien and outfox Matthew Boyce, checking the away team's momentum just as they hoped to build it.
It was one of the better budget gags.The chancellor's more substantial offers appeared similarly designed to outfox his rivals.
At least two recent American TV shows have played on the desperate attempts of baffled men to outfox their machines by recording lots of porn films or macho war movies because their TiVos think they are gay.At its launch in 1999, TiVo promised more: to be a revolutionary gadget that would upend the TV business, undermine the advertising industry and free viewers from the tyranny of TV schedulers.
A new road was cut through the desert to outfox the Taliban along the most dangerous stretch, and NATO said heavy fighting to clear the route killed 250 of them.
Companies are also devising novel technologies to outfox the criminals.
In 2008, he demonstrated how easy it is to outfox America's Transportation Security Administration, forging boarding passes, "forgetting" his ID, wearing an "Osama bin Laden, Hero of Islam" t-shirt, packing a Hizbullah flag in his luggage and getting on the plane every time.
She raises the question: how come these people in a poor country are so skilled and astute, so clever that they can outfox us?Her tour of the Nigerian netherworld explores the ingenuity of an ambitious underclass, the turbo-charged commercial metabolism of Africa's biggest nation and its finely tuned culture of crime.
WHILE you were paying attention to some little election thingy over the weekend, Hillary Clinton was at the East Asia Summit in Hanoi trying to outfox Beijing over the South China Sea.
He has not dished dirt on his collaborators, but his reputation as a man who could outfox Western opponents is gone.
