How To Use Puckish In A Sentence
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To balance the evening, Tree ends with Li sitting alone on stage, puckishly singing along in Chinese with the old Johnson recording.
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Perhaps inspired by my glare, he puckishly suggested that I take up making shoes (homonymic with my surname).
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He is a puckish, straight-talking young man from Brisbane whose unwillingness to mince his words has resulted in friction with his team managers.
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Growling in from left is Warren Miller, the puckish godfather of extreme-ski cinema and our nation's original ski bum.
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Indian cricket for too long has been defined by a kind of elegant puckishness.
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Her material is good, but her puckish delivery even better.
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It was a privilege to be in thrall to those stentorian tones, liberally laced with puckish humour, which delighted millions of cricket fans for decades, first on television and later on radio's immensely popular Test Match Special.
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She was pretty, a lovely devilment in the face, a puckish little smile, tiny pointed ears suggesting otherworldliness.
MAMBO
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Perhaps it's the nature of his face - it's built to look older than it is, when it's really just odd - puckish, unlovely, something youth never really touched.
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I thought she displayed a grace and charm in that speech as well as a puckish sense of humor that would make her a very appealing witness before the Judiciary Committee.
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It remains an issue worth both puckish and serious consideration.
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GREENFIELD: Joe Lieberman does have a kind of puckish sense of humor.
CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2003
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Martin Short practically channeled the puckish, meticulous interviewer on SCTV.
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The conductor, short, chubby, curly-haired and Puckish, has been effusive in his welcome.
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Kit grinned at Alan puckishly and leaned forward, whispering into Alan's ear.
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Your finely honed bon mots and puckish conversational sallies will be of no assistance - this woman seems to be listening to something else entirely.
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There's a kind of puckish sense of humor that Wellstone has always carried into his political campaigns, like the famous ads he did in 1990 where he's talking at breakneck speed, saying I don't have any money, so I have to talk fast.
CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2002
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Clark's puckish grin and chiselled cheekbones finally creep into view.
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As he loosens up, his voice doesn't get much louder, but displays a ferocious intelligence and barbed wit that are rendered all the more puckish by his understated, boyish delivery.
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Rational Review
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It has a puckish acidic slap as it rushes across the palate.
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He was puckish, totally sure of himself and extremely 'actorly'.
Times, Sunday Times
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By the way"—an able tailor, Garak altered his expression from puckish to sincerely concerned—"any word from him?
WARCHILD
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A puckish, Harvard-educated New Englander who moved to California in his 20s, Mr. Adams lives in a pink stucco home in north Berkeley, Calif., with his wife, photographer Deborah O'Grady, and begins each morning by taking his German shorthaired pointer, Eloise, out for at least an hour-long walk in Tilden Park.
Busting Out of Musical Lockdown
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Buttons trademarks were his puckishness and wry humour.
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puckish" Microsoft move, says antitrust expert in an analysis of the latest maneuver.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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He looked at me with that combination of sternness and puckishness which is uniquely his, and said, "I think, in fact, that it is really only about half over."
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Royal smirked at Larkins, his eyes gleaming puckishly, before setting out across the tracks for a good place to jump on to the next train.
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A puckish reader, moved by some of Bob's less mainstream opinions, wrote this bit of hilarity
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What I want is my Louise... "He made a puckish little smile.
GALILEE
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The Cheshire cat's wide, puckish smile descending from the heavens as a crescent moon; the caterpillar puffing opiate smoke into the face of Alice and snobbishly asking, Who ...
Archive 2009-10-01
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He's tanned, there's a puckish glint in his eye and his Coventry accent is proudly unblunted by his years in academia.
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A puckish irreverence, calculated to upend the cliché of the tortured master builder, is integral to his impressive resume.
Building a Better Future
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The woman gave her a puckish smile and then settled into an armchair.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The prelude to Scene 2 meanwhile shows Poulenc's play with brass and woodwinds in give and take, while puckishly plucked strings and harp play with each other in the background.
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She was becoming more and more puckish, until I called her on it and told her that I realized I was being set-up.
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One of Mr. Echenoz's most unorthodox and playful novels, "Piano" 2004, extends this puckish futilitarianism to the realm of the afterlife.
A Window Onto Comic Tedium
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Rational Review
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His publicity pictures show a perky looking man - puckish perhaps - with a cheery grin of white teeth and lightly raised eyebrows like cedillas.
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Mr. Galentine was quieter, but possessed what the couple's longtime neighbor described as a puckish sense of humor.
NYT > Home Page
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His publicity pictures show a perky looking man - puckish perhaps - with a cheery grin of white teeth and lightly raised eyebrows like cedillas.
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Incidentally, I would note in a puckish vein that Mr. Ryan's letter points to no contrary evidence.
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There is, for a start, a very puckish sense of humour; and a big, infectious, roaring laugh.
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Again, her eyes held a playful, puckish gleam that I couldn't help but not ignore.
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Dressed in a dark blue suit, he attempts, successfully at first, to project a businesslike air but it never quite manages to stifle the puckish charmer within.
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The Cheshire cat's wide, puckish smile descending from the heavens as a crescent moon; the caterpillar puffing opiate smoke into the face of Alice and snobbishly asking, Who ...
Archive 2009-10-01
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Rational Review
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Dianne Feinstein described Reid's sense of humor as "puckish" and Cantwell said that one of the downsides of having Al Franken as a colleague is that the men in the caucus try to out-funny the funny man.
Harry Reid, The Man Who Never Says Goodbye
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Since then, sightings of the puckish scribe have been rarer than those of the reclusive Barclay brothers.
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Songful in the adagio, puckish in the finale, she never let the music down.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce,’ a puckish German wit once quipped.
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Perhaps it's the nature of his face - it's built to look older than it is, when it's really just odd - puckish, unlovely, something youth never really touched.
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He writes with a sort of puckish style that belies his conservatism.
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I honestly think he's being puckish with his coy answers, and that he has no intention of being the running mate to a left-liberal Democrat.
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I once, rather puckishly, asked a drug company to support a conference on ECT and received a scrawled handwritten reply from the head of psychopharmacology saying basically, ‘Are you kidding?’
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It accomplished all those achievements with a puckish irreverence that captivated the public and made heroes of its employees.
In the Plex
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Most interviews mention his childlike manner, his puckishness, but that's not it.
Times, Sunday Times