jackanapes

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Noun
  • Orange cats have earned an online reputation for being chaotic, energetic rascals.
    Gayoung Lee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Eventually, Sergei — now going by Kraven — begins knocking off a growing list of poachers, corporate rascals and international kingpins.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Jets were young whippersnappers in 2022, a team that wasn’t supposed to be any good but jumped out to a 6-3 record powered by a remarkable rookie class.
    Zack Rosenblatt, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile, private investigator Julie (Estrada) seeks an investigative assistant but isn't in the market to hire a young whippersnapper.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Ever since her husband died from a bee sting, the matriarch has smoothly guided her octet of rapscallions through proposals, scandals, and balloon disasters.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 14 June 2024
  • Renée Zellweger is set to return as the lovable but flailing at life Jones as is Hugh Grant as rapscallion Daniel Cleaver.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Frank Borzage’s 1927 7th Heaven features Fox contract player Janet Gaynor as a Parisian street urchin and newcomer Charles Farrell as the sanitation worker who loves her.
    Jane Levere, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The grasslike material offers a home for baby urchins to cling to.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • What’s a good way for a ragtag group of video-game heroes (or for a heroic rogue flying solo) to either get some respite from the action or gear up for a momentous narrative?
    Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Jan. 2025
  • And the issue at hand runs deeper than a few rogue docs overstepping their bounds.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The pair also express disbelief at the wide U.S. release of the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man, in which the singer is portrayed as a CGI monkey.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The quirky movie, in which a CGI monkey portrays the British singer Robbie Williams, scraped together $255,000 from 1,290 theaters over the weekend and $310,000 through Monday, bringing its domestic tally to an embarrassing $1.8 million.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Internet users can't get enough of the love between the infant and her granddad, who takes care of her from Monday to Friday when Rogers is at work.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Looking like the cross between a spermatozoon and a tadpole, this needy, frail little infant is wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes, resting on the dresser and then the drawer of poor Jack Nance’s apartment in an industrial hellscape.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But read two more and the skeptical imp within you awakens.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • William got a kick out of the little imp, and Gary was in awe of William.
    Ira Silverberg, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Jackanapes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jackanapes. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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