Example Sentences
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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
The inevitable James Bond question must be dealt with, and Laurie waggishly went for it.
From Washington Times • Apr. 18, 2016
"Wunderbar," "So in Love," "Tom, Dick or Harry" and, of course, the waggishly shrewish "I Hate Men."
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2015
“Embryos are like photograph film,” said Mr. Foster waggishly, as he pushed open the second door.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
