What's the difference between playful and puckish?

Playful


Definition:

  • (a.) Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (2) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
  • (3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (4) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (5) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (6) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
  • (7) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
  • (8) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
  • (9) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
  • (10) In concert with TF expressed by monocytes and macrophages this endothelial cell procoagulant activity may play a role in the pathogenesis of thrombotic disease.
  • (11) To determine whether or not the glycan moieties in hTPO play a role in the disease-associated epitopes in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, radiolabeled recombinant hTPO was immunoprecipitated after digestion with N-glycanase.
  • (12) Immunohistochemical observation of myoepithelial cells with monoclonal antibody from human mammalian cancer suggested that these cells play an important role in the process of glandular ducts formation.
  • (13) Anti-human factor V IgG decreased this enhanced thrombin formation in the presence of platelets, indicating that factor V from platelets was playing an important role in thrombin formation.
  • (14) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
  • (15) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (16) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
  • (17) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
  • (18) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (19) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (20) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.

Puckish


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over time, the name has lost its punny puckishness much as the movement has steadily shifted from a proudly anacharical – even populist – response and rebellion within the GOP to a smoothly functioning alternative to it.
  • (2) As a novelist, she was preoccupied by the intersection between power and personality, which she represented, in what became trademark fashion, in a variety of puckish settings.
  • (3) Asked how Russia's oligarchs are bearing up, Lebedev is almost puckishly cheerful.
  • (4) Lars Von Trier is known for being unpredictable, quixotic, puckish and deliberately provocative.
  • (5) Here, as he rolls a joint to the disapproval of his married friend's square wife, he has Peter's insolence and puckishness.
  • (6) His face was puckish but kind, and flickered between reflection and mischief.
  • (7) Joe is a prototypical working class American male – stout, thick, jovial, moralistic, but with a puckish curiosity about how the other half lives.
  • (8) Jack is lanky, friendly and restless; Jade shorter, puckish, with a ponytail.
  • (9) I’ve hit a wall here.” The Republican presidential primary lost Lindsey Graham, its only voice of reason | Lucia Graves Read more Despite an accomplished résumé and a puckish sense of humor , Graham was never able to gain any traction in the Republican primary.
  • (10) Photograph: Karen Robinson Puckish Mathieu Amalric caught the pundits by surprise when he scooped the Cannes director prize for his 2010 burlesque caper On Tour.
  • (11) In recent years, she has dominated Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre: as the shape-shifting fairy in Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker ; as Strindberg’s fallen aristocrat Miss Julie ; as self-deluding alcoholic Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ; and as a puckish but ferocious Hamlet , all directed by Sarah Frankcom .
  • (12) There are fewer flashes of the puckish humour these days and he is more cautious in his pronouncements, but he is nonetheless saying more than the government would like, and recent actions by his supporters speak still louder.
  • (13) The warmth of public affection for "the arch" was evident on Thursday amid the otherwise austere grandeur of the 19th-century St George's Cathedral , once a bastion of resistance to apartheid where the puckish Tutu rallied hearts and minds.
  • (14) From Warhol 's stars to the early incarnations of David Bowie , from the puckish sexual innocence of Marc Bolan to the studied posing of photographer Nan Goldin 's transvestite friends, from Iggy Pop 's self-destructiveness to Alice Cooper 's cultivation of a dangerous persona, the sense that the self is something to be constantly reinvented and performed remains a kind of lesson, however trite and contrived some of those performances might now appear.
  • (15) He seems more relaxed and puckish now, weaving though the streets of his adopted home town.
  • (16) Having resigned a couple of times before, I know how puckish lobby hacks might choose to misconstrue the departure.