Crossword-Solution: WAGGERY 7 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

There was something extremely provoking in this obstinately pacific system; it left Brom no alternative but to draw upon the funds of rustic waggery in his disposition, and to play off boorish practical jokes upon his rival.

But I couldn't resist asking him, out of sheer waggery, whether he didn't think a touch of powder, and even, very judiciously applied, a touch of rouge, was an improvement to woman.

One imitative little imp covered his face with an old black handkerchief, thereby so affrighting his playmates that the panic seized himself, and he well-nigh lost his wits by his own waggery.

Insolence made use of it to give offence; ignorance, to avoid exposing itself; and waggery, to create laughter.

This was the method of the age which, in the abysmal profound of waggery, engendered that portentous birth, the comic paper.