impishness

IPA: ˈɪmpɪʃnʌs

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.