puckish

Tony McNamara, who scripted Stone’s puckish mischief in The Favourite, is one writer.

Wherever he turned up, he brought aspects uncommon to the setting, especially his reservoir of puckish wit.

“Sociable” and “puckish” is how a Toledo Blade headline described them in 1957.

With a puckish grin, he ordered his entourage, including several generals, to line up and join him in—how shall one put it?

BORN THIS WEEK Rafael Nadal (June 3, 1986) Gemini is ruled by winged Mercury, named for the puckish god of tricksters.

That there may be an Eternal Puckish Malice arranging and deranging human destinies is another question.

A puckish thought crossed her mind, sending a flash of slightly cynical laughter through her quiet eyes.

Gives you an impression, perhaps by the brightness of his eyes, of Puckish mirth playing within his mind.

As the kittens grew older, they had the run of the house, which they filled with elfin mirth of motion and reels of Puckish revel.

This "Discourse" is appreciably more puckish in tone than the earlier two-thirds of Chambers' published "Chinese" work.