larker

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Noun
  • The women screamed as the playful monkey swept in and struck his pose.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
  • This is why she’s been able to hold the screen with Mullally and that monkey, by the way, the former playing her father Eli’s new romantic interest, Lori, and the latter as BJ’s new service animal after a fall from a stripper pole resulted in a spinal-cord injury.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Trapped: Mind-Altering Shorts Date & Venue TBA Tap into the collective unconscious of a rogue’s gallery of grifters, hermits, and sociopaths with our infamous showcase of gloriously confounding cinematic curios.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 May 2025
  • Harry goes searching for Seraphina and Brendan, who've gone rogue.
    Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Their big-brother/little-brother vibe is more affecting than the relationship between siblings Natalie and Henry, typical Hollywood urchins whose brave action-movie routines are exceptional only for their cubistic, pillowy environs.
    Armond White, National Review, 16 Apr. 2025
  • These urchins now persist in a dormant state, waiting for new kelp to appear.
    Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Alex has two choices: Linger at Union Station and see what rascals cross her path, or take up an invitation to join her British guardian angels at their home in Winnetka.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
  • After their car is stolen, the group of rascals must resort to some hilarious hijinks to get past the finish line.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Fire marshals charged Cherry with three counts of second-degree arson, three counts of criminal mischief, and three counts of reckless endangerment.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 9 May 2025
  • In the video, De Souza jumps around a bouncy castle and making mischief at a stuffy garden party.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Martinez was looking at cutups Monday morning of 6-6, 20-year-old right-hander Travis Sykora, Washington’s third-round pick in 2023, who’s coming on, uh, quickly.
    David Aldridge, The Athletic, 27 Aug. 2024
  • Apparently all-in on Reynolds, Hollywood is now reasoning that his star power — some chemically adhesive combination of dashing leading man, comic-relief cutup, and lifestyle mogul — will prove irresistible regardless of the context.
    A.A. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2024
Noun
  • And Dot — well, Dot keeps an imp in an old wine bottle.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Combining animation and live action, the film continues the adventures of the magical imp Pumuckl.
    Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Larker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/larker. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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