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

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

A gaily canonical return to the anthological form, swashbuckling spirit, social commentary and puckish humor of what is now referred to as “The Original Series,” with technological upgrades and built-out characters.

From Los Angeles Times

So where do these puckish, duckish people go to walk in the rain?

From Seattle Times

Winston Churchill, whose fiery resolve and puckish impudence led many to embrace him as an inspiring, authentic, if imperfect, leader, never set out to become an accomplished artist.

From New York Times