puckish

Example Sentences

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But their puckish, low-stakes experiment took off with more outdoor readings and a glossy print publication: Forever Magazine.

From Los Angeles Times

They take the film’s ridiculousness just seriously enough to keep barreling through while navigating the more puckish bits with the requisite charm and buoyancy.

From Los Angeles Times

Twenty-five years later a puckish French horn player warned me, a literature major who didn’t yet have an email address, that the future lay in something called “hyperlinks.”

From New York Times

“Sweatshop Overlord” reenacts with puckish commentary how she discovered her mission as the epidemiological news went from bad to worse.

From Los Angeles Times

Once England created three picturesque goals to best Senegal, 3-0, on Sunday night before 65,985 at Al Bayt Stadium in the Qatari north, the puckish brackets nodded for a colossus.

From Washington Post