Puckishly

Wags asked puckishly: "She was Kane, but was he Able?" ❋ Michael Burlingame (2011)

When she finished describing the poisonous concoction, she grinned and added puckishly, “Why not revive it for MO?” ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

Just for laughs: The puckishly outspoken late-night host Craig Ferguson takes to the stand-up stage for the Comedy Central special Does This Need To Be Said? ❋ Unknown (2011)

They also embraced the puckishly sexist slogan coined by Nike, “Chicks Dig the Long Ball.” ❋ Dave Zirin (2010)

Still, Jodi Kimura is aces as Mary, asserting herself puckishly and mangling English with the shameless disregard of a woman interested only in closing a sale. ❋ Peter Marks (2010)

Elections are as much about likeability as ideology or even laundry lists of accomplishments, and Fenty in four years has morphed from the young dynamo with enough confidence to poke fun at himself - remember the 2006 TV ad in which he puckishly displayed the hole in the sole of his shoe from walking nearly every block of the city? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Elections are as much about likeability as ideology or even laundry lists of accomplishments, and Fenty in four years has morphed from the young dynamo with enough confidence to poke fun at himself -- remember the 2006 TV ad in which he puckishly displayed the hole he'd worn in his shoe sole from walking nearly every block of the city? ❋ Unknown (2010)

He had spoken of it, puckishly, on many occasions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Good-looking, great job, fine education, puckishly amusing and even clever when he put his mind to it, reasonably fit and trim for an office jockey, Noah had all the bona fide credentials for a killer eHarmony profile. ❋ Glenn Beck (2010)

But even people who are open-minded about IQ often puckishly say "So what?" ❋ Unknown (2010)

The most unlikely tour-de-force, and also possibly the best story in the collection, is a feat few horror authors could even attempt far less pull off: an actual, complete Shakespearean play, the Stoker nominee "A Plague On Both Your Houses," which puckishly applies the approximate plot of Romeo and Juliet to a star-crossed romance between a living boy and zombie girl. ❋ Scottedelman (2010)

"We are a poor developing nation," Dr. Reddy said puckishly. ❋ Unknown (2010)