impish

Encouraged either by Escoto’s impish grin or the cake’s playful spirit, someone pushed his face into the cake — with just enough force to cover his face in frosting but not enough to topple it over.

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.

She had blue eyes and a soft voice, and as I would learn later, an impish wit.

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".

North shot to fame playing Dennis, an impish child who wore baggy overalls with a slingshot in his back pocket and who often made a mess of things for his neighbor George Wilson.