hellion

Example Sentences

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His pharmacist father became the reformist mayor of Santiago, and the youthful Desi — born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha in 1917 — a bit of a hellion.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025

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

So he agrees to take her, even though she is a hellion at the start.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2016

But clearly, the hellion he married wouldn’t allow that.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 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