hellion
Example Sentences
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A little hellion, according to her own description, she was not adopted even after her picture and profile were featured as a child needing a forever home in The Seattle Times.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
Among others, Kun encounters his great-grandfather as a motorcycle-riding young rebel, his own mother as a youthful hellion, and, most perplexing of all, his own sister Marai as an engaging “Marai from the future” teenager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2018
So he agrees to take her, even though she is a hellion at the start.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2016
But clearly, the hellion he married wouldn’t allow that.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2015
Only that she was, in her words: a hellion, who was shuttled from one unhappy foster situation to another.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
