cheeky

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Blair was known as a cheeky, rebellious, and argumentative schoolboy, and at 17 he was threatened with expulsion for persistently breaking school rules.

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  1. adjective Impertinently bold; impudent and saucy.

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  • He hired the cheeky, ambitious, charming, and dangerously clever Steingrim Kragvik. —  EQMM,August2007
  • He always excused his methods on the ground that the Mashona looked as if they were about to be cheeky, and he thought it best to stop them in time. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
  • Should a CHURCH be forced to adorn itself with naked, cheeky,
  • When she breathlessly (literally) bellowed "Cabaret", she took a cheeky, audience-winking pause after the line "that's what comes from too much pills and liquor." —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • This young woman has built her way up from nothing, from dropping out of school, from selling donuts and double-glazed windows to making a slew of world tastemakers (from sometime collaborators Basement Jaxx to Jay-Z, who recently signed her) take note of a random, cheeky, and undeniably charismatic talent. —  Hip Hop News from HipHopGalaxy.com
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