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It is written with elegance and often pungency, the pitch-perfect dialogue ranging from the waggishly epigrammatic to the bluntly outraged.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2021

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

“Embryos are like photograph film,” said Mr. Foster waggishly, as he pushed open the second door.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley