impish
Example Sentences
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These alternately grave and impish modes recur throughout the show, aptly subtitled “Serious Play,” often combining in a single image.
He produced candid, often impish shots of the rockers on stage and off.
It hung in a place of honor in the headmistress’s office, where the founder’s wise yet impish face gazed down at any student who happened to end up sitting across from Miss Mortimer’s desk.
From Literature
This time, he had an impish twinkle in his eye.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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