impish

IPA: ˈɪmpɪʃ

Examples of "impish" in Sentences

This trick invested his handsome face with a kind of impish fastidiousness.
As they neared the entrance to the ballroom she paused with a new kind of impish smile.
I noted early on Jeffress often has a kind of impish jocularity with a William H. Macy face.
What we have called the impish daring and resource of Cochrane is shown in this strange fight.
As they neared the entrance to the ball room she paused a moment with a new kind of impish smile.
Hassett, an intelligent man and under-stated captain, used to be dubbed impish, and it fitted him.
Only he kept mounting higher and higher, till at last his impish tormentors -- _impish_, I said -- dared follow him no farther.
Mr. Baron, for whom the word "impish" must have been coined, built up his production gradually, starting at 300 or so cases and now holding steady at about 4,000.
Best known as the impish Master of Ceremonies from "Cabaret"-Walter Kerr described him, in 1966, as "sin on a string"-Grey is still, at seventy-nine, one of Broadway's most beloved character actors.
Stanley Cavell sees (hears) Poe's prose as "a parody's of philosophy's" (111) in just this respect, its iterative paranoia and "impish" wordplay as the mad antithesis of any overcome skepticism about the credited and signified world.