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synonyms for elfish

  • elfin
  • impish
  • naughty
  • prankish
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How to use elfish in a sentence

Parpon climbed up on a pile of untired wheels, and with an elfish grin began singing.
WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKER
Pinched and elfish faces of children appeared at the windows overlooking the kirkyard.
GREYFRIARS BOBBYELEANOR ATKINSON
Tom doesnt believe, I suppose, that girls would quite understand his manly feelings, she added with a sudden elfish smile.
RUTH FIELDING IN THE RED CROSSALICE B. EMERSON
She had been with him, smiling, elfish and tender one moment, and gone the next.
THE BLACK OPALKATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD
And as she spoke the elfish eyes gleamed strangely into his own.
A NOBLE NAMECLAIRE VON GLMER
She had the look of a dryad at odds with the world, a whimsical and elfish intellectual.
DANGEROUS AGESROSE MACAULAY
The venerable walls are the target for their elfish tricks and wanton caresses, their fugitive withdrawals and stealthy returns.
THE LURE OF OLD LONDONSOPHIE COLE
"Never mind, mother mine," said she, turning in elfish mood to brush her lips across the frustrated fingers.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 14, NO. 84, OCTOBER, 1864VARIOUS
Back among some of his idle dreams there had been a Kitty, blue-eyed, black-haired, slender and elfish.
THE VOICE IN THE FOGHAROLD MACGRATH
In Alexandrian poetry Eros is at one time the powerful god who conquers all, at another the elfish god of love.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 9, SLICE 7VARIOUS
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO ELFISH

  • delicate
  • devilish
  • disobedient
  • elfish
  • frolicsome
  • impish
  • little
  • minute
  • misbehaving
  • naughty
  • petite
  • playful
  • prankish
  • puckish
  • puny
  • rascally
  • slight
  • sprightly
  • tiny
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.