waggish

• “Mrs. Dickinson, presently "coming up with" Rosamund's party, became absolutely "waggish" (the Dean's expression), and made Rosamund laugh with that almost helpless spontaneity which is the greatest compliment to a joke.”

  In the Wilderness

• “[This is the kind of waggish editorial O. Henry was writing in 1894 for the readers of _The Rolling Stone_.”

  Rolling Stones

• “All this time Id been anticipating Id die f! rom something interesting, similar to a black hole caused by a Hadron Collider, or a little waggish accident involving super-heated marshmallow goo as good as inter-dimensional gods.”

  Nevermore: Welcome to Baltimore

• “Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson - USATODAY. com”

  Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson

• “Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson”

  Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson

• “Certainly almost all the best English wine writers seem to have begun life as wine merchants, including such late luminaries as André Simon (a prolific writer for whom a prestigious wine book prize is named) and Harry Waugh (a waggish one who famously described a 1961 Château Latour as simply a wine with "lots of color and bags of fruit"—this was, long before the two-paragraph tasting note).”

  The Wall Street Journal: What to Read With a Good Beaujolais

• “Mr. Hughes, who offers a popular history of Rome and Roman art from antiquity to the present, finds himself more or less forced into the waggish incredulity of so many Anglo-Saxon writers at the bizarre annals of the papacy's temporal power.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Heirloom City

• “County Sin Rankings [1] takes a somewhat waggish approach to doing so.”

  A Progressive on the Prairie » Scoring the seven deadly sins county by county » Print

• “County Sin Rankings takes a somewhat waggish approach to doing so.”

  Scoring the seven deadly sins county by county « A Progressive on the Prairie

• “Even with the occasional, waggish interlude "Replace the national anthem with Gold by Spandau Ballet", the annals of Downing Street petitioning, which closed only in June last year, tell a tale of such comprehensive futility that you feel as if they should be a metaphor for something or other.”

  The Guardian: Let's all join in not signing up to this idea of e-petitions | Catherine Bennett

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