How To Use Impishness In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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It's wimpishness, pure and simple.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Immediately Tudor's monkey-like impishness left him, and he was once more the cool, self-possessed man of the world.
Chapter 26
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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
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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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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
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Certainly there is something youthful in the image posterity holds of both composers: Mozart's impishness, Schubert's ardent drama.
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He had a delightful impishness which was to be a hallmark of his character throughout his life.
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Lisa has a certain impishness to her character that explains the smirks quite sufficiently on its own.
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Bob proved a handful of impishness and contrariety, and he tried out his rider as much as his rider tried him out.
Chapter XI
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But he did it not from hauteur but from impishness.
Daredevil
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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
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Familiaris, though they attained great dignity of conception, and were the centre of the family life, and to some extent of the family morality, never quite rose to the position of full-grown gods; while among the spirits of the field the wildness and impishness of character associated with Faunus and his companion Inuus -- almost the cobolds or hobgoblins of the flocks -- reflects clearly the old 'animistic' belief in the natural evilness of the spirits and their hostility to men.
The Religion of Ancient Rome
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The male was no longer tiny (kittens grow quickly) but he would still have the impishness and activity level of a kitten.
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We may never know if the poem is, in fact, slander or is evidence of some hidden impishness on Milton's part.
John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem
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That momentary impishness, that glimpse of the old Avy, disappears.
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