puckish

Example Sentences

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Twenty-five years later a puckish French horn player warned me, a literature major who didn’t yet have an email address, that the future lay in something called “hyperlinks.”

From New York Times

“Oh, I’m not writing that,” he said in the interview between rehearsals, adding with a puckish grin: “There’s too much I know. I’d rather write another show, and get ‘Cinderella’ here.”

From New York Times

It’s the kind of puckish observation that a man with a three-decade-plus career and at the top of his game is comfortable making.

From Seattle Times

Drawing from her first five books, this selection highlights McLane’s puckish tone and piercing insights.

From New York Times

A puckish antiquarian, the Philadelphia artist scored his short to obsolete phone sounds, and presents the footage in degraded black-and-white that recalls idiosyncratic Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin’s pseudo-silent-era films.

From Washington Post