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 Fawcett, Edgar
Mrs. Dunbar was a beautiful woman, just young enough, rompish enough, and wise enough to get a very good time out of life, and pass some of the pleasure on.
From The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening by Garis, Lilian
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 Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
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