puckish

Example Sentences

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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

Drawing from her first five books, this selection highlights McLane’s puckish tone and piercing insights.

From New York Times

The DJ and composer narrates his own story while also participating in the puckish animated interludes and surreal reenactments meant to connect the archival footage, forging a larger commentary on the perils of massive fame.

From Los Angeles Times

In other words, while White may be forgotten now, his ghost still haunts medicine — a prospect that would have delighted this pious, puckish Frankenstein.

From New York Times

How glorious, then, to clock their interplay, McKellen taking the reins as a raconteur, with a puckish Jacobi, nattily dressed, not far behind.

From New York Times