wag
verb (used with object)
to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly.
Example Sentences
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These are waggishly identified by finding icons of Humpty Dumpty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2020
Jean-Luc Godard maintains, perhaps waggishly, that film tells the truth 24 times a second.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2020
If Mexico were to set about punishing all its corrupt public officials, he said, waggishly, there wouldn’t be enough prisons to hold them.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2018
Dozens of news organizations waggishly noted that an earlybird tweet for the Walker campaign noted, “Scott is in,” characterizing it as a telling misfire.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 12, 2015
“Embryos are like photograph film,” said Mr. Foster waggishly, as he pushed open the second door.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
