waggish
Example Sentences
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His waggish vision — turning things upside down and inside out to revel in their strangeness — feels very current.
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2022
Gunn gets that, evident in his interpretation of Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" and 2021's waggish do-over of "The Suicide Squad" for DC.
From Salon • Jan. 13, 2022
It was his background as an educator that he credited for his repetitive locution style - or, as waggish journalists dubbed it, his "single transferable speech".
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2020
That all sounds so awful, and it is — but in the narrator’s knowing, alternately wry and waggish commentary, there is more than denial, repression and toughing-it-out, though plenty of that, too.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2020
No one had ever seen him so waggish, or so happy.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing waggish
A Christmas Carol
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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