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 Barbarians offer tasty challenge to Johnson Someone within the 12-strong committee of the Barbarian Football Club certainly has a sense of humour.
From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2010
And then I, in my Impish way, would offer to fight them too, resenting their scurril nicknames, and telling them that I had but one name, which was Jack Dangerous.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus
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