impish
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Impish and amused, he’s pretending to be perturbed, and the photographer is in on the joke.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2021
The house used to belong to Rose Impoliteri, a bucket of bright Italian paint on New York’s stolid white canvas, and a riot of premonitory associations: Rose the Impolite, Rose the Loitering, Rose the Impish.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2017
Impish if insubstantial, the show’s critique of class rage and the toxic desire for fame doesn’t cut deeply.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2015
Impish Kyle Walker should give Glen Johnson a challenge for the right-back spot if Aitch gives him some games.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2011
Impish he was, or might be, but only in the sort of the crow or the parrot; there was no malevolence in his fine malice.
From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean
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