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
It’s your moral obligation to introduce this delightful hellion to all the quarantine pups in your life.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2020
So he agrees to take her, even though she is a hellion at the start.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2016
No doubt she was scolding my little hellion.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
