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[ UK /ɪmpˈɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈɪmpɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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.
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