impish

He realized the impish elf had become a runaway success when “one day my parents asked me for a Labubu doll,” he said.

“Because we get a lot of food now, it looks better...” he trailed off and shot an impish grin at the two women, “and I don’t have to mow it.”

Even after more Tests as captain than any other England player, a job that can make a man twice as old and half as happy, Root remains baby faced and impish at the crease.

Goldwait’s absence is sorely felt when the school’s leadership changes, though the actor’s flickering return as an impish, bow-tie-wearing Paul Klee, the Swiss-German painter, offers slight compensation.

With a high, raspy voice, thick German accent and disarming manner that was by turns ebullient, brisk, maternal and impish, she put both jittery censors and embarrassed callers at ease.