cutup

Example Sentences

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A slightly awkward cutup, she betrays some of the same resistance that Louise has shown when thrust against her will into yet another inane kiddie act.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2025

She was the candid cutup they’d like to have on speed-dial.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024

People dressed in all black wielding shields of cutup trash cans formed a barricade around the Quad to protect the encampment against possible counterprotesters.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024

“I was kicked out of school pretty regularly, because I was a cutup and kind of neurotic,” he told The Times in 1986, “so I left when I was 16.”

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2022

She was the cutup of the escapement department at the watch factory; the older woman's lips sagged at the corners.

From One Basket by Ferber, Edna