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Puckish
Puckish meaning
Having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
Example sentences (5)
But his lines have softened with age; his manner has grown puckish and approachable.
There’s a reason I say Reynold’s puckish self-deprecation is only ever honest: it is obviously and categorically untrue that the Deadpool & Wolverine team have “made enemies with Disney”.
At launch, HBO Max will become the exclusive online home for the puckish Time Lord, with all 11 seasons of the modern series available.
Not the murder mystery part, which is tailor-made for the age of true crime podcasts and reddit sleuths; nor the audience interactivity part, which Crocker’s cast handles swimmingly with the delightful combo of generosity and puckish wit.
Performing at his mature finest, Banderas moves up and down the emotional register from mournful to puckish to regretful to freshly hopeful with a restraint that dials down Almodóvar's breathy melodrama almost to straight realism.