waggish

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• I hope the tributes that are paid do not forget his droll and waggish wit. Times, Sunday Times
• This casual private intercourse with Israel, but served to manifest him in his far lesser lights; thrifty, domestic, dietarian, and, it may be, didactically waggish. Israel Potter
• Our Rector has often "chaffed" this worthy gentleman on his midnight adventure, saying, waggishly, "there was more in it than met the eye. Pickwickian Studies
• During this melancholy pause , the turnkey read his newspaper with a waggish look.
• And, sure enough, every thing about her save her dress “is semblative a woman's part”: she has none of the assumption of a pert, saucy, waggish manhood, which so delights us in Rosalind in As You Like It; but she has that which, if not better in itself, is more becoming in her, ” “the inward and spiritual grace of modesty” pervading all she does and says. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
• Certainly almost all the best English wine writers seem to have begun life as wine merchants, including such late luminaries as André Simon (a prolific writer for whom a prestigious wine book prize is named) and Harry Waugh (a waggish one who famously described a 1961 Château Latour as simply a wine with "lots of color and bags of fruit"—this was, long before the two-paragraph tasting note). What to Read With a Good Beaujolais
• County Sin Rankings [1] takes a somewhat waggish approach to doing so. A Progressive on the Prairie » Scoring the seven deadly sins county by county » Print
• Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer
• Mr. Hughes, who offers a popular history of Rome and Roman art from antiquity to the present, finds himself more or less forced into the waggish incredulity of so many Anglo-Saxon writers at the bizarre annals of the papacy's temporal power. The Heirloom City
• Perhaps he is a victim, waggish political reporters suggested, of government cuts. Times, Sunday Times