Naughtily or annoyingly playful.
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Examples for "wicked "
Examples for "wicked "
1 They suggested romances: lovers in the forests; knights in armor; wicked enchantresses.
2 The happiness of the just and the evil state of the wicked .
3 And these indulge in subtleties in order to excuse the most wicked .
4 But in the torment of Hell shall the wicked remain for ever:
5 And I learned things all right, she said with a wicked smile.
1 A step in the distance; some one coming up towards the arch .
2 Continue until you pass under the rock arch , where you turn right.
3 The high arch of the gateway of the chateau was in sight.
4 I found the following inscription upon an arch in the upper story:
5 At the top of the arch was a flattering inscription in verse.
1 Would you characterize the manifestations yesterday as a: 'angry'; or b: ' mischievous ' ?
2 Her words had lost their playfulness, no longer singing with mischievous intelligence.
3 National Party finance spokesperson Bill English says the Greens are being mischievous .
4 James thought for a moment, and then smiled a long, mischievous smile.
5 Of course you must be punished; it was exceedingly careless and mischievous .
1 Take the perennial comedy-theme of the impish collar, and visualize the scenes:
2 The spectacle is weird and grotesque, and suggests something impish and uncanny.
3 His round, impish face grinned back at the girl at the desk.
4 Evie had a special room totally dedicated to the grinning, impish dolls.
5 Joey slid off the desk and surveyed her with an impish smile.
1 Garvin is a bushy-browed man with a serious air of puckish enthusiasm.
2 His face was puckish but kind, and flickered between reflection and mischief.
3 His tone changed, became less puckish ; he elegized diversity with a shopworn .
4 Or as puckish as a maimed colonel of dragoons could be.
5 Her lively eyes and animated features convey the storyteller's puckish naughtiness.
1 This priceless if rather pixilated footage is from height of mambo mania.
2 The pixilated blur of Alban jumping made a bright line behind her eyelids.
3 Meanwhile, mildly pixilated characters gaze absently at them and sometimes make enigmatic remarks.
4 A page of links on Satan and Satan-related topics sprang to pixilated life.
5 Ethan's face appeared on her screen, slightly pixilated but still familiar, still handsome.
1 To-day's prankish sport may put us to trouble for a satisfactory explanation.
2 I felt like a boy; a wild, prankish sensation of freedom possessed me.
3 At that somehow, I both lost my temper and felt prankish .
4 That was all, but Peggy knew that it would serve its prankish purpose.
5 A prankish mood came upon her now which she couldn't resist.
1 His arms beat wildly about his head in expression of implike enthusiasm.
2 Suddenly Jake, implike , turned and stared at Worthington.
3 Mrs. Coulter smiled, and her dæmon bared his white teeth in a grin of implike pleasure.
4 And he mused seriously upon the radical differences between himself and those men who were dodging implike around the fires.
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