How To Use Waggish In A Sentence

  • 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
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  • 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
  • [This is the kind of waggish editorial O. Henry was writing in 1894 for the readers of _The Rolling Stone_. Rolling Stones
  • County Sin Rankings takes a somewhat waggish approach to doing so. Scoring the seven deadly sins county by county « A Progressive on the Prairie
  • In transcribing clumsy translations of the titles, I noticed that de Pomiane's titles were often waggish.
  • There is no longer any such article as a separate Scottish language, and, indeed, I am in some dubitation whether it ever existed at all, and is not rather the waggish invention of certain audacious Scottishers, who have taken advantage of the insular ignorance and credulity of the Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • Passengers at Haymarket station are sustained in their long vigils by the wit of a waggish train announcer who does his best to bring cheer to their dismal existences.
  • 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, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
  • Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson - USATODAY. com Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson
  • It put a face to the voice, so often heard on local radio telling waggish tales of country life.
  • We like the absence of previous waggish excess and ostentation. Times, Sunday Times
  • He called the cleverest of his children, and bade it affix to his breech-cloth a plantain-leaf, dog's-tail-wise, and waggishly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
  • The New York Times ran a waggish headline: ‘From the Voice of Dogma Comes the Sound of Music.’
  • Fretfully are cheaply a few that can be brickly as maul waggishness, and we bridgehead the compositor of them. Rational Review
  • It's not a waggish jokeyness, more of a watchful sharpness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Oh clever-clogs, so knowing, so waggish. Times, Sunday Times
  • All this time Id been anticipating Id die f! rom something interesting, similar to a black hole caused by a Hadron Collider, or a little waggish accident involving super-heated marshmallow goo as good as inter-dimensional gods. Archive 2009-12-01
  • The chicaly bird began his musical quick cuckoo cry, the corrosou tolled out his bell notes, the "waggish kinds of Monkeys" screamed and chattered in the branches, playing "a thousand antick Tricks. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
  • The oilcloth which covers the long table is so greasy that a waggish externe will write his name on the surface, using his thumb-nail as a style. Father Goriot
  • Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson
  • Still, there is an irony to it that may appeal to Boris's waggish nature.
  • Mrs. Dickinson, presently "coming up with" Rosamund's party, became absolutely "waggish" (the Dean's expression), and made Rosamund laugh with that almost helpless spontaneity which is the greatest compliment to a joke. In the Wilderness
  • Heyer was never taken seriously by her contemporary critics "waggishly frolicsome, pertly paced", but "Regency Buck" and most of her other novels are still in print. A Sweet Spot in Literary History
  • To return to Franklin, this didactically waggish man blandly assured English readers that it was grand to see the whales leap like salmon up the falls of Niagara.

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