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Adjective
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And within the prankish world created by the production, not everyone was in on the joke.—
David Renard,
New York Times,
1 May 2025 -
Fuchs put a prankish spin on the descending octaves that tootle above the reprise of the symphony’s solemn opening.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
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What’s curious, then, is not Trump’s eagerness to degrade us, but his uncontrollable urge to defile himself and his office.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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When he was hired, Hazimeh told supervisors he had been diagnosed with anxiety, resulting in an uncontrollable nervous tic.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
22 Oct. 2025
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Autumn Springs is populated by finely wrought individuals, led by the indomitable Rose and her roguish friend Miller.—
Neil McRobert,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
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Wells could be playful, knavish, and his tone here is one of urgency and optimism about the distribution of information.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
30 July 2021
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The same people who are now telling us that only Republican-voting obscurantists, ignorant deplorables and knavish right-wing media pundits are raising doubts about the vaccine would have been oozing skepticism.—
Gerard Baker,
WSJ,
12 July 2021
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Ultimately, the laws are based on a dystopia and wrongheaded assumption that Americans firearms for their self-defense.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
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Nearly 25 years later, North is just as bad as Ebert wrote, an astoundingly wrongheaded concept executed in the most mealy-mouthed, limp way possible.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
13 Sep. 2025
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And the first person viewers saw on-screen this week was Patterson’s fellow newcomer Jeremy Culhane—a fresh face to those who have never encountered social-media clips of his impish appearances on the niche comedy streamer Dropout.—
Erik Adams,
The Atlantic,
5 Oct. 2025
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The impish Reeves brings puppy-dog codependence to the scruffy Estragon, who leans on Vladimir as his body and memory fail him.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The waggish jeer that subverts the Reich Chancellery, designed by Adolf Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, must have sent the woman who chastises children for flatulent folly into a tizzy.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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After publishing a New York Times piece about grieving her late husband, the waggish writer received an email from a kindly old acquaintance who was also recently widowed.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
24 Oct. 2024
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Fortunately, many of us live in communities of fellow pet lovers who are willing and ready to keep an eye out for wayward animals.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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Tennessee’s big cats are mostly of the bobcat variety, but one wayward mountain lion captured the state’s attention.—
Mackensy Lunsford,
Nashville Tennessean,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Monkeyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monkeyish. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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