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impishness

NOUN
  1. the trait of behaving like an imp

How To Use impishness In A Sentence

  • He had a delightful impishness which was to be a hallmark of his character throughout his life.
  • That momentary impishness, that glimpse of the old Avy, disappears. Famous
  • 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
  • The male was no longer tiny (kittens grow quickly) but he would still have the impishness and activity level of a kitten.
  • Familiaris, though they attained great dignity of conception, and were the centre of the family life, and to some extent of the family morality, never quite rose to the position of full-grown gods; while among the spirits of the field the wildness and impishness of character associated with Faunus and his companion Inuus -- almost the cobolds or hobgoblins of the flocks -- reflects clearly the old 'animistic' belief in the natural evilness of the spirits and their hostility to men. The Religion of Ancient Rome
  • Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory". In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
  • But he did it not from hauteur but from impishness. Daredevil
  • Bob proved a handful of impishness and contrariety, and he tried out his rider as much as his rider tried him out. Chapter XI
  • Lisa has a certain impishness to her character that explains the smirks quite sufficiently on its own.
  • Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory". In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
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