hellion
Example Sentences
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His pharmacist father became the reformist mayor of Santiago, and the youthful Desi — born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha in 1917 — a bit of a hellion.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
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
It’s your moral obligation to introduce this delightful hellion to all the quarantine pups in your life.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2020
So he agrees to take her, even though she is a hellion at the start.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2016
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
