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puckishly
adverb
literaryuk /ˈpʌk.ɪʃ.li/ us /ˈpʌk.ɪʃ.li/
in a way that is puckish(= typical of someone who takes pleasure in causing trouble, but may be funny and attractive) :
The writing is a mix of the colloquial and the puckishly clever.
She remembers, puckishly, an incident that occurred when she was about three years old.
He puckishly announced that no matter where we were going, he would not be coming with us.
At 86, he looks puckishly healthy, munching a slice of fruit cake baked by his wife.
He seems less comfortable cackling puckishly than you might imagine.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Bad but attractive
cheekily
cheekiness
cheeky
devilish
devilment
impish
juicy
mischief
mischievous
mischievously
mischievousness
puckish
rapscallion
rascally
roguish
roguishly
sinfully
wicked
wickedly
Synonyms
impishly mischievously Related wordpuckish
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