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impishness

NOUN
  1. the trait of behaving like an imp

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  • Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory". In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
  • Thinner, his voice reedier from damage to vocal cords caused by a breathing tube, he still carries on his face a familiar, smart-aleck impishness. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • It's wimpishness, pure and simple. Times, Sunday Times
  • Affectionate and devoted to their owners, they exhibit a healthy dose of impishness, a penchant for instinctual problem solving, and a finely developed sense of humor.
  • Immediately Tudor's monkey-like impishness left him, and he was once more the cool, self-possessed man of the world. Chapter 26
  • 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
  • Ishmael's reply was in that very formal tone that masked what in anyone else might have been termed impishness. Ishmael
  • 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. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
  • Certainly there is something youthful in the image posterity holds of both composers: Mozart's impishness, Schubert's ardent drama.
  • He had a delightful impishness which was to be a hallmark of his character throughout his life.
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