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waggishness

/wag-ish/US // ˈwæg ɪʃ //

狼狈为奸,狼狈不堪,狼心狗肺,狼性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : like a wag; roguish in merriment and good humor; jocular: Fielding and Sterne are waggish writers.
    • : characteristic of or befitting a wag: waggish humor.

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Examples

  • The third-day story, as I recall, fell to John Kifner, then a waggish youngster, later a great foreign correspondent.

  • “The Spawn of Carefully Spent Sperm,” a waggish still childless friend of mine suggested.

  • The stranger looked sternly at the waggish apprentice, and seemed to grasp his cudgel in rather a menacing fashion.

  • "Mind old Jerry's ghost doesn't catch hold of you," cried her waggish brother Jack, as she crossed the threshold, tea-can in hand.

  • One would have said that some waggish creature was producing them and amusing himself with our embarrassment.

  • "You people better draw up an agreement as to who's to have all this gold," said Locke, with a waggish smile.

  • Yes, and a little cooler atmosphere from above, added a third waggish one.