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synonyms for impish
- devilish
- jaunty
- naughty
- playful
- casual
- devil-may-care
- elfin
- elvish
- fiendish
- flippant
- free and easy
- fresh
- frolicsome
- giddy
- offhand
- pert
- pixieish
- prankish
- puckish
- rascally
- saucy
- sportive
- waggish
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How to use impish in a sentence
That’s not normally something a company’s largest individual shareholder teases about but, for Musk, it’s a typically impish quip.
She wasn’t a full-time journalist until she was thirty-four years old, but she made up for lost time, crashing through glass ceilings at NPR and ABC with her impressive mind, impish wit, and infectious laugh.
Memories of Cokie Roberts: Tenacious, talented, empathetic and inspiring | Connie Schultz | November 5, 2021 | Washington PostShe appeared at his side, impish smile in place, dutiful, fragrantly rather than ferociously sexy, and—frustratingly—an adjunct.
How Can Katie Holmes Escape Tom Cruise—and ‘Dawson’s Creek’? | Tim Teeman | October 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz described it as “fabulously complex, sexual, asexual, mysterious, powerful, impish.”
The Tilda Swinton Weirdness Quiz: All About the MoMA-Napping Actress | Melissa Leon | March 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTPosner may be impish, but the flawed amendment language is a prime villain in the gun debate.
Sasha, now 11 years old, was no longer the impish child but a preteen with a sense of age-appropriate glamour.
Election Night 2012: Fashion of Jubilation And Mourning | Robin Givhan | November 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe pastry chef, Matteo, was positively impish in his delight.
He was a dark impish looking fellow, as lean as Cassius and as crafty and envious as Iago.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowA caricature grotesque and impish, and yet one that no human being could mistake—a caricature by the hand of a master!
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton SinclairAn impish thought danced before her for a second—“Fine talk, but you know you love to be loved.”
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona CairdHe approved of Parpon, and never lost a chance of sharpening his humour on the dwarf's impish whetstone of a tongue.
When Valmond Came to Pontiac, Complete | Gilbert ParkerHe always returned empty-handed, and Nannie watched with an impish smile from an upper window.
The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives | Elizabeth Strong Worthington
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