waggish
夸大其词,夸张的,摇摆不定,夸张
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- : like a wag; roguish in merriment and good humor; jocular: Fielding and Sterne are waggish writers.
- : characteristic of or befitting a wag: waggish humor.
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The third-day story, as I recall, fell to John Kifner, then a waggish youngster, later a great foreign correspondent.
“The Spawn of Carefully Spent Sperm,” a waggish still childless friend of mine suggested.
The stranger looked sternly at the waggish apprentice, and seemed to grasp his cudgel in rather a menacing fashion.
"Mind old Jerry's ghost doesn't catch hold of you," cried her waggish brother Jack, as she crossed the threshold, tea-can in hand.
One would have said that some waggish creature was producing them and amusing himself with our embarrassment.
"You people better draw up an agreement as to who's to have all this gold," said Locke, with a waggish smile.
Yes, and a little cooler atmosphere from above, added a third waggish one.