impish

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These alternately grave and impish modes recur throughout the show, aptly subtitled “Serious Play,” often combining in a single image.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

But the Rodgers and Hammerstein works stirred the soul in a way the more impish Rodgers and Hart shows couldn’t, and they remain cornerstones of the musical theater.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Manuel chips in enthusiastically with an impish grin, saying that the new systems that he too firmly believes will emerge will be the "next stage in humanity's evolution".

From BBC • May 25, 2025

With one foot in either place, we’re pulled between the impish naivete of childhood — when the future seemed vast and bright — and the doldrums of adulthood.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2025

She gives me an impish look and shrugs.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone