impishness
IPA: ˈɪmpɪʃnʌs
noun
- The state or quality of being impish; mischievousness.
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Examples of "impishness" in Sentences
- But he did it not from hauteur but from impishness.
- That momentary impishness, that glimpse of the old Avy, disappears.
- We may never know if the poem is, in fact, slander or is evidence of some hidden impishness on Milton's part.
- Ishmael's reply was in that very formal tone that masked what in anyone else might have been termed impishness.
- Bob proved a handful of impishness and contrariety, and he tried out his rider as much as his rider tried him out.
- Immediately Tudor's monkey-like impishness left him, and he was once more the cool, self-possessed man of the world.
- But spend enough time with him, and you might start to feel that he did it out of sheer impishness, a desire to change something simply because it could be changed.
- With a schlubby, mustachioed Matt Damon and his part-trivial part-fantasy deadpan voiceover, Soderbergh is putting the impishness of his title character front and center.
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