rompish
Americanadjective
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There’s something inescapably rompish about splicing together the music of the Go-Go’s with English Renaissance source material.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
Since 1993, when Kenneth Branagh's rompish Much Ado About Nothing earned $23 million at the domestic box office on an $8 million budget, studios have begun to belly up to the Bard.
From Time Magazine Archive
As I thus gave vent to my resentment I instinctively felt that, so far from causing her to avoid me, it would quicken her rompish interest in me.
From The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan
Lively 269 without being ever rompish, and naturally retiring, I asked only to be occupied, and seized with quickness the ideas which were presented to me.
From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
To be sure, I tore my dress, scratched my face, and committed numerous other little rompish miss-demeanors, which procured for me a motherly scolding.
From Homestead on the Hillside by Mary Jane Holmes
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