How do you use Puckish in a sentence? See 5 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like impish or mischievous, plus the exact meaning.
Puckish in a sentence
Puckish meaning
Having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
Using Puckish
- The main meaning on this page is: Having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
- Useful related words include: impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated.
Context around Puckish
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Puckish
- In this selection, "puckish" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, grown, self and wit stand out and add context to how "puckish" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include for the puckish time lord and generosity and puckish wit. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "puckish" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with puckish
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But his lines have softened with age; his manner has grown puckish and approachable. (14 words)
At launch, HBO Max will become the exclusive online home for the puckish Time Lord, with all 11 seasons of the modern series available. (24 words)
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”. (31 words)
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. (39 words)
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. (36 words)
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”. (31 words)
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.