[ UK /ɪmpˈɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈɪmpɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. naughtily or annoyingly playful
    teasing and worrying with impish laughter
    a wicked prank
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How To Use impish In A Sentence

  • In the Allegro assai moderato we have an impression of impish playfulness that is very much akin to Gade's own inventiveness.
  • Unfortunately, Reg Holdsworth is getting a bit too romantic the bespectacled romeo should get back to his impish, eccentric ways.
  • 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. Damon is best thing about “The Informant!” » Scene-Stealers
  • Unfortunately, Reg Holdsworth is getting a bit too romantic the bespectacled romeo should get back to his impish, eccentric ways.
  • Gillespie is well known for his impish sense of humour.
  • Provided," she added with an impish expression, `that the next person is me, of course. I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
  • He may be absolutely mild-mannered (even meek and wimpish) in most respects, but no original thinker or doer gets anywhere in any field without aggression and stupendously high self-regard.
  • His persona there is what I suppose you would call roguish, impish, twinkling or some similarly emetic term and he simply cannot afford to get Private Eye involved in anything remotely controversial or interesting because of the danger that his mainstream audience would drop him as fast as Gerald Ratner's customers dropped him if they found out that he was mixed in in any real world nastiness like proper investigative journalism. Iain Dale's Diary
  • She dismissed his apology with an impish smile, ‘Nothing I haven't heard before.’
  • Ishmael's reply was in that very formal tone that masked what in anyone else might have been termed impishness. Ishmael
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