[
UK
/ɪmpˈɪʃ/
]
[ US /ˈɪmpɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈɪmpɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
naughtily or annoyingly playful
teasing and worrying with impish laughter
a wicked prank
How To Use impish In A Sentence
- He had a delightful impishness which was to be a hallmark of his character throughout his life.
- John is a lonely gay man with a father fixation and a forbearing best friend (played by John Cardone with impish charm) who worries about the approach of middle age in the form of his 40th birthday.
- Provided," she added with an impish expression, `that the next person is me, of course. I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
- But true or not, it nowadays seems blimpish and offensive to many people. The Times Literary Supplement
- Liverpool, then, seemed to be growing in confidence, Luis Suárez - booked early on for a kick out at Michael Dawson - beginning to work his fleet-footed, impish magic, nutmegging opponents, his electricity jolting the Kop awake. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Classmates found him impish and approachable one day, icy in his dignity the next.
- That momentary impishness, that glimpse of the old Avy, disappears. Famous
- Out of all the nations that make up the Union of Great Britain, England, at times, shows the most self-deprecating, wimpish and rudderless sense of national pride one could imagine.
- We may never know if the poem is, in fact, slander or is evidence of some hidden impishness on Milton's part. John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem
- She had a short dark hair cut framing a face that remained impish despite her age.