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
The reigning belles were mostly a set of loud, rompish girls, with names that rang unfamiliarly.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
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
Besides, she is ill-bred, quite a rompish girl.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
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