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Still, at its best, Needle Guy applies Brady’s prankish energy to unsettling inversions of his inspirations.—
Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 25 Mar. 2026
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Yet, the prankish tone keeps Grace from having much of a personality, other than a rebellious screw this.— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
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Iran is an uncontrollable, radical country that spreads terror and mayhem throughout the Middle East and has continually threatened America.— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
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The episode culminates with Vanessa dying in her hospital bed, sending Wilson into a fit of uncontrollable rage that ends with him strangling a man to death.— Antonio Ferme, Variety, 15 Apr. 2026
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Plans are now underway for a contemporary reimagining of the series, which saw McShane play the eponymous roguish and fourth wall-breaking antiques dealer, a likeable anti-hero with a knack for recognizing genuine antiques from fakes or forgeries.— Alex Ritman, Variety, 4 Mar. 2026
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Joe Morrow plays the roguish Sean.— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2026
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Santa’s elves are generous souls, not elfish.— Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2025
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But showing a recent visitor his awards, Shannon, who at 75 has a shock of snowy hair and an elfish grin, seemed almost embarrassed.— John Horgan, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2016
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Wells could be playful, knavish, and his tone here is one of urgency and optimism about the distribution of information.— BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
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The same people who are now telling us that only Republican-voting obscurantists, ignorant deplorables and knavish right-wing media pundits are raising doubts about the vaccine would have been oozing skepticism.— Gerard Baker, WSJ, 12 July 2021
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One of the greatest threats to public education in Chicago is the union itself and its wrongheaded insistence that CPS focus on political activism over academics.— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
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This wrongheaded mercantilist view of international trade and external accounts has its roots in how individual businesses operate.— Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
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The finding speaks to the cleverness of Kea (Nestor notabilis), mountain-dwelling parrots with a reputation for impish intelligence.— Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2026
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Like the impish anti-romance that crumbles around it, the movie’s twist is both transgressive enough to be pleased with itself and also rooted in a reality that refuses to be dismissed as a bad joke.— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2026
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The show is gloriously nonsensical: a vague excuse to watch a revolving door of spotlight-hungry pussycats prancing their paws to Webber’s waggish earworms.— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
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The waggish jeer that subverts the Reich Chancellery, designed by Adolf Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, must have sent the woman who chastises children for flatulent folly into a tizzy.— Natasha Gural, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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“Monkeyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/monkeyish. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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