hellion
Example Sentences
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A little hellion, according to her own description, she was not adopted even after her picture and profile were featured as a child needing a forever home in The Seattle Times.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
My younger kid, Dan, was a bit of a hellion, who, classically, Resisted Authority.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2021
I am a swamp hellion managing my barking desires.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2018
Or is it just that Fox has become tired of scampering around like some overage-underage hellion?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2015
Only that she was, in her words: a hellion, who was shuttled from one unhappy foster situation to another.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
