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impish
[ im-pish ]
impish
/ ˈɪmpɪʃ /
adjective
- of or resembling an imp; mischievous
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Derived Forms
- ˈimpishness, noun
- ˈimpishly, adverb
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Other Words From
- impish·ly adverb
- impish·ness noun
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Example Sentences
That’s not normally something a company’s largest individual shareholder teases about but, for Musk, it’s a typically impish quip.
She wasn’t a full-time journalist until she was thirty-four years old, but she made up for lost time, crashing through glass ceilings at NPR and ABC with her impressive mind, impish wit, and infectious laugh.
She appeared at his side, impish smile in place, dutiful, fragrantly rather than ferociously sexy, and—frustratingly—an adjunct.
New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz described it as “fabulously complex, sexual, asexual, mysterious, powerful, impish.”
Posner may be impish, but the flawed amendment language is a prime villain in the gun debate.
Sasha, now 11 years old, was no longer the impish child but a preteen with a sense of age-appropriate glamour.
The pastry chef, Matteo, was positively impish in his delight.
He was a dark impish looking fellow, as lean as Cassius and as crafty and envious as Iago.
A caricature grotesque and impish, and yet one that no human being could mistake—a caricature by the hand of a master!
An impish thought danced before her for a second—“Fine talk, but you know you love to be loved.”
He approved of Parpon, and never lost a chance of sharpening his humour on the dwarf's impish whetstone of a tongue.
He always returned empty-handed, and Nannie watched with an impish smile from an upper window.
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