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
Besides, she is ill-bred, quite a rompish girl.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
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
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
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