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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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Beyond Venezuelan incompetence, American pressure and fears of uncontrollable escalation may be driving Chinese caution.—
Wesley Alexander Hill,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Unlike the original Izo, Didi is described as an unpredictable and uncontrollable gang leader who has isolated others that are part of the powerful Viv Ansanm gang coalition.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Or were the Arabs in Palestine done in again and again by inflexible, wrongheaded, venal, and corrupt leadership?—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
20 Aug. 2025
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Bowles said, made a wrongheaded decision to attend the inauguration of the incoming president of Ghana, ignoring pre-trip fire warnings.—
Steven P. Dinkin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2025
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Despite the austerity of her ambitions, there are moments of lush imagination that leaven the tone somewhat, like a dream sequence in which Teresa, furiously making bread in the middle of the night, is teased by an impish child.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Aug. 2025
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With an impish grin, the young star carried the film with the confidence of actors four times his age, landing a Golden Globe nomination for his efforts.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
26 Aug. 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
Adjective
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Romania, meanwhile, has tried to right the ship after several wayward years of mismanagement at the Romanian Film Center, and a pile of unpaid debts from its cash rebate program that the government is finally close to settling in full.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Jamie Lee Curtis continues her hot streak of buzzy performances as Ella’s aunt, with Woody Harrelson as her wayward father, plus Jack Lowden, Kumail Nanjiani, Ayo Edebiri and Albert Brooks.—
Jack Smart,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Podiatrists crafted them specifically to solve the lack of arch support in most shoes.—
Rosie Marder,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
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The Royals exacted their own measure of revenge against their arch nemesis.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Monkeyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monkeyish. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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