puckishness
Americannoun
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The audience is jollied along by Veneziale with polite puckishness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
It also seemed he had been onto something when he had showed the capacity to wink and had achieved puckishness by telling the Japanese media, “I might be the beast of these Olympics.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2022
His voice is a little raspier than it once was, but that signature puckishness is fully intact.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2020
Moshfegh is the novelist for me right now; there’s such freedom and puckishness in her prose, and grandmaster technical wizardry, too.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2018
The focus on the clock, however, may just be a bit of sly misdirection from Sanborn—who is known among Kryptos fans for his puckishness.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2014
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