waggish
IPA: wˈægɪʃ
adjective
- witty, jocular, like a wag
- mischievous, tricky
Examples of "waggish" in Sentences
- He is a waggish and funny boy.
- He smiled at the waggish humor.
- He is a waggish student in the class.
- It is a line from a waggish folk song.
- I like people who are funny and waggish.
- County Sin Rankings takes a somewhat waggish approach to doing so.
- Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson
- County Sin Rankings [1] takes a somewhat waggish approach to doing so.
- Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson - USATODAY. com
- The new tiki bar in downtown Tacoma offers a waggish combination of strategic lighting.
- [This is the kind of waggish editorial O. Henry was writing in 1894 for the readers of _The Rolling Stone_.
- Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then.
- Roberts, a 35 year old Englishman with a waggish sense of humour and an interest in zoology, was happy to oblige.
- If you're feeling particularly waggish, we suppose you could fish a small stone out of a river bed to present the e card with.
- It's being sold as a farcical rom com about a waggish ex soccer star from Scotland who finds himself catnip to American soccer moms.
- Mrs. Dickinson, presently "coming up with" Rosamund's party, became absolutely "waggish" (the Dean's expression), and made Rosamund laugh with that almost helpless spontaneity which is the greatest compliment to a joke.
- All this time Id been anticipating Id die f! rom something interesting, similar to a black hole caused by a Hadron Collider, or a little waggish accident involving super-heated marshmallow goo as good as inter-dimensional gods.
- Mr. Hughes, who offers a popular history of Rome and Roman art from antiquity to the present, finds himself more or less forced into the waggish incredulity of so many Anglo-Saxon writers at the bizarre annals of the papacy's temporal power.
- Certainly almost all the best English wine writers seem to have begun life as wine merchants, including such late luminaries as André Simon (a prolific writer for whom a prestigious wine book prize is named) and Harry Waugh (a waggish one who famously described a 1961 Château Latour as simply a wine with "lots of color and bags of fruit"—this was, long before the two-paragraph tasting note).