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How to use puckish in a sentence

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He's tanned, there's a puckish glint in his eye and his Coventry accent is proudly unblunted by his years in academia.
Again, her eyes held a playful, puckish gleam that I couldn't help but not ignore.
I honestly think he's being puckish with his coy answers, and that he has no intention of being the running mate to a left-liberal Democrat.
He is a puckish, straight-talking young man from Brisbane whose unwillingness to mince his words has resulted in friction with his team managers.
Incidentally, I would note in a puckish vein that Mr. Ryan's letter points to no contrary evidence.
Since then, sightings of the puckish scribe have been rarer than those of the reclusive Barclay brothers.
She was becoming more and more puckish, until I called her on it and told her that I realized I was being set-up.
Dressed in a dark blue suit, he attempts, successfully at first, to project a businesslike air but it never quite manages to stifle the puckish charmer within.
Clark's puckish grin and chiselled cheekbones finally creep into view.
It has a puckish acidic slap as it rushes across the palate.
He writes with a sort of puckish style that belies his conservatism.
I thought she displayed a grace and charm in that speech as well as a puckish sense of humor that would make her a very appealing witness before the Judiciary Committee.
With his puckish wit and number-crunching facility, he skewers fund managers who rake off fat fees or chase fads like Internet stocks.
Without his puckish verve for disruption, it'd become a show about technical adequacy and endless piano ballads.
The film, which shoots in Canada later this year, looks at a father and son who bond over ice hockey, hence the puckish title.
It remains an issue worth both puckish and serious consideration.
Delevingne is a puckish, cynical foil to Wolff's naivete, and Abrams and Smith banter effectively as the comic relief.
Delevingne is a puckish, cynical foil to Wolff 's naivete, and Abrams and Smith banter effectively as the comic relief.
To salt their wounds, a puckish figure named Igor Matovič soaked up most of the right's losses, leading his ragtag Ordinary People party to its first ever berth in parliament.
Brushstroke's wine and sake list offers a great deal to go along with this food, at least if you seek the counsel of Seju Yang, the restaurant's puckish young sommelier.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The luncheon-bell tinkled across the ensuing pause, like a peal of puckish laughter.
A puckish thought crossed her mind, sending a flash of slightly cynical laughter through her quiet eyes.
Gives you an impression, perhaps by the brightness of his eyes, of puckish mirth playing within his mind.
As the kittens grew older, they had the run of the house, which they filled with elfin mirth of motion and reels of puckish revel.
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