waggishness

I can't help loving that man, for all his drollery and waggishness.

Ben Stiller has faced this dilemma since last year, when Entertainment Weekly slotted him at 44 on its top-50 list of waggishness.

Because of Botvinnik's waggishness, the play threatened to turn into a one-man show (avoided by the skillful interaction and underplaying of the two performers).

We are, in spite of my friend's waggishness, but two plain blunt countrymen, and have no more need of a valet than one of those poets which you have spoken of.

But for a grave waggishness in Mr Rugg's manner of delivering this introduction to the feast, it might have appeared that Miss Dorrit was expected to be one of the company.

Mostly he looks befuddled or overwhelmed, conveying little of either the energy that enabled him to make 140 shorts in his first year in California or the waggishness apparent in old photos and films.

All this culture shock brings out a certain waggishness in Spenser, who is fascinated by the elaborately staged lives of the horsy set and more amused than appalled by the character flaws he uncovers beneath all the polite gentility.

"You will please take note, Markham old dear," observed Vance, with a touch of waggishness, as we turned into 72nd Street and headed for the park, "that there are others than your modest collaborator who are hag-ridden with doubts as to the volition of Pardee's taking-off.