Sentence examples for mischievous wink from inspiring English sources

"mischievous wink" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it when you want to express or describe something playful or light-hearted, often with a slight suggestion of mischief or slyness. For example, you could write: "The old man gave me a mischievous wink as he offered me a piece of advice."

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Billy shot me a little mischievous wink.

Ms. Kent, who understands that this ballet is a parody, plays Hanna with sophistication and a mischievous wink.

"It's not about being obsessed with death," he said, two diamond earrings glinting from his left ear like a mischievous wink.

There are usually lots more high jinks to be had with us Saga louts.' Jenny gave me a big, mischievous wink.

I DON'T ever let up!" she said with a throaty chuckle and a mischievous wink at her daughters, who were huddled with her where almost all Italian families huddle: the dining-room table.

And after the fifteenth or so curtain call, he gives a mischievous wink, shifts from foot to foot, mimes a bit of apology, and does a shuffling little street-urchin dance — all of it to erase the fabulous, dying-swan impression left by the act".

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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.

Or, with its parade of Southern gothic references (Faulkner Williams, O'Connor) and melodramatic metaphors, is the show supposed to be a winking, mischievous musical?

He points to Nigel Farage's charm, such as it is, as being based in mischievous humour and "a wink" that somehow makes politics human.

The current inconvenience of hiding has simply altered his stratagems and given his usual winking and mischievous tone an angry, survivalist cast.

He appeared courteous in an old-fashioned way, yet still vaguely mischievous, as if he might call you ma'am but would wink at you as you left the room.

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