puckish

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• Tony McNamara, who scripted Stone’s puckish mischief in The Favourite, is one writer.

• Wherever he turned up, he brought aspects uncommon to the setting, especially his reservoir of puckish wit.

• “Sociable” and “puckish” is how a Toledo Blade headline described them in 1957.

• With a puckish grin, he ordered his entourage, including several generals, to line up and join him in—how shall one put it?

• BORN THIS WEEK Rafael Nadal (June 3, 1986) Gemini is ruled by winged Mercury, named for the puckish god of tricksters.

• That there may be an Eternal Puckish Malice arranging and deranging human destinies is another question.

• A puckish thought crossed her mind, sending a flash of slightly cynical laughter through her quiet eyes.

• Gives you an impression, perhaps by the brightness of his eyes, of Puckish mirth playing within his mind.

• As the kittens grew older, they had the run of the house, which they filled with elfin mirth of motion and reels of Puckish revel.

• This "Discourse" is appreciably more puckish in tone than the earlier two-thirds of Chambers' published "Chinese" work.