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Adjective
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And within the prankish world created by the production, not everyone was in on the joke.—
David Renard,
New York Times,
1 May 2025 -
In person, Wood is funny but sedate, speaking in a deadpan carried along by a prankish undercurrent.—
Ismail Muhammad,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Now, however, the United States is spiraling into a rapid and uncontrollable drawdown of its assets, pursuing short-term goals at the expense of long-term objectives.—
HENRY FARRELL,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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The development also sparked an even bigger discussion about growth in Concord becoming uncontrollable.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Wells could be playful, knavish, and his tone here is one of urgency and optimism about the distribution of information.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
30 July 2021
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The same people who are now telling us that only Republican-voting obscurantists, ignorant deplorables and knavish right-wing media pundits are raising doubts about the vaccine would have been oozing skepticism.—
Gerard Baker,
WSJ,
12 July 2021
Adjective
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Bowles said, made a wrongheaded decision to attend the inauguration of the incoming president of Ghana, ignoring pre-trip fire warnings.—
Steven P. Dinkin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2025
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Phil Murphy, governor of New Jersey, in enlisting President Trump in his wrongheaded suburban war against congestion pricing, puts at risk the federal approval for the essential tolling plan.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But Kealoha offers Lilo a wellspring of sadness and aching loneliness just beneath the surface of her more impish qualities.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
20 May 2025
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The impish yet cute plushies are a global sensation among Gen Z and even those older, often hanging on handbags, backpacks and belt loops.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
17 May 2025
Adjective
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The waggish jeer that subverts the Reich Chancellery, designed by Adolf Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, must have sent the woman who chastises children for flatulent folly into a tizzy.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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After publishing a New York Times piece about grieving her late husband, the waggish writer received an email from a kindly old acquaintance who was also recently widowed.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
24 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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For these folks, this week’s bizarre introduction to the business side of MLS and international football may feel like a wayward soccer ball to the chops.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 July 2025
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When Anisimova got to the ball on the deuce side, her forehand was wayward.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
Adjective
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These Dolce Vita leather slip-on boots have a 2.25-inch heel that adds just the right amount of lift for all-day comfort and better arch support.—
Leila Najafi,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Aug. 2025
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Kiley, arguably Newsom’s arch rival within the state, currently represents much of the northern Sacramento suburbs, northern Sierra Nevada, and the Nevada border down to Death Valley.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Monkeyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monkeyish. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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