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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 INSPIRINGCONNIE SCHULTZNOVEMBER 5, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHe 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 IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWA caricature grotesque and impish, and yet one that no human being could mistake—a caricature by the hand of a master!
LOVE'S PILGRIMAGEUPTON SINCLAIRAn impish thought danced before her for a second—“Fine talk, but you know you love to be loved.”
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA 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, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERHe always returned empty-handed, and Nannie watched with an impish smile from an upper window.
THE GENTLE ART OF COOKING WIVESELIZABETH STRONG WORTHINGTONHe was aware of every inch of her disdainful, impish presence as she stood there watching him from a corner of one eye.
ROBERT ANNYS: POOR PRIESTANNIE NATHAN MEYERThe answers are heard in it as though the person speaking were there concealed in an impish embodiment of himself.
STEAM STEEL AND ELECTRICITYJAMES W. STEELEThe fire in the grate looked impish—demoniacally funny, as if it did not care in the least about her strait.
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLESTHOMAS HARDYAll at once he caught sight of De Gollyer's impish eyes, and, unable longer to contain himself, burst out laughing.
MURDER IN ANY DEGREEOWEN JOHNSONWORDS RELATED TO IMPISH
- airy
- animated
- bold
- brash
- breezy
- buoyant
- carefree
- careless
- cocky
- dapper
- dashing
- debonair
- devil-may-care
- devilish
- easy
- exhilarated
- flip
- flippant
- forward
- free
- fresh
- frisky
- frolicsome
- gamesome
- gay
- high-spirited
- hilarious
- impetuous
- impish
- impudent
- jocose
- joking
- jolly
- jovial
- light
- natty
- nervy
- perky
- playful
- prankish
- provocative
- reckless
- rollicking
- self-confident
- showy
- smart
- sportive
- sporty
- sprightly
- spruce
- swaggering
- trim
- venturesome
- vivacious
- arch
- artful
- bad
- bothersome
- damaging
- dangerous
- deleterious
- destructive
- detrimental
- dickens
- evil
- exasperating
- foxy
- frolicsome
- harmful
- hazardous
- holy terror
- hurtful
- ill
- ill-behaved
- impish
- injurious
- insidious
- irksome
- malicious
- malignant
- misbehaving
- naughty
- nocuous
- perilous
- pernicious
- playful
- precarious
- puckish
- rascal
- rascally
- risky
- rude
- sinful
- sly
- spiteful
- sportive
- teasing
- tricky
- troublesome
- vexatious
- vexing
- vicious
- wayward
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