Sentence examples for mischievous nod from inspiring English sources
He gives a mischievous nod towards an edition of one of my novels on the shelf behind him.
Mr. Girard carries on the ritual of the Victorian circle, with Mr. Wooster's approval, in a mischievous nod to 19th-century gardeners who loved to set out their tropical bedding plants in garish patterns on the lawn.
In a mischievous nod to Tey, I gave them a teenage maid named Betty, and a bland local ally, Dr Faraday, who would find himself caught up and transformed by the coils of their increasingly unnerving story.
"Definitely, I'm mischievous," she nods, with that funny halfway smile she sometimes has, like a smile doing a u-turn.
There are knowing nods and mischievous winks all over the place in Sherlock – to itself, to the people who watch it and worry about it, and to the books that inspired it.
The puckish Mr. Hunter, who can't even sit and nod without a mischievous glint in his eyes, speaks so plainly and directly that only afterward does the impact of his words register.
There was also a nod to his more mischievous side.
He is variously described as "fantastic fun and thoroughly approachable, with a mischievous twinkle in his eye", but with an occasional tendency to nod off in meetings.
A mischievous smile spreads.
