Search Details

Word: waggish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...waggish name which Senators have pinned upon the Secretary because of his frail, fidgety physique, his meekness among the mighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Secret Agreements | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...voted the most popular lad in his class at a Manhattan public school. Some of his waggish friends commented upon the strangeness of his popularity, for he was known to be an inveterate blower of his own trumpet. But it was his skill upon this trumpet, the cornet, that was responsible for his popularity, for his later success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Game | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK - Sporty spring practice by the waggish Kaufman and Connelly, tackling the tired business man as a dummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Comedy | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

...waggish Junior who excitedly held forth to a wondering crowd of fellow-students on the dangers of an elevated sewer during a commercial panic, afterwards explained that he was only referring to a drain on Banks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

...Waggish Critic. I like Nilsson better in "Lucia" than in "Otello...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

Previous | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |