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Meanings of impishness in inglês

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The trait of behaving like an imp.

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Examples for "whimsicality"
Examples for "whimsicality"
1
The same whimsicality is shown elsewhere in the course of the novel.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
2
There was something in the tone of the whimsicality that alarmed her.
Constance Dunlap
3
Your office may be stored with records of human perversity and whimsicality.
Young Lives
4
There was a casual whimsicality in its tone that always annoyed Ussa.
Broken Circle
5
For a moment the whimsicality of it interrupted the current of his feeling.
A Little Journey in the World
1
Alberto Iglesias's score wheezes its way to a melancholy tinged with mischievousness.
The Irish Times
2
Her transient irresponsibleness and mischievousness are then cited as everyday, persistent vices.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
3
She smiled with a sweet mischievousness-justas my father used to smile-andanswered:
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
4
Not in charity, because you are convinced of the grave social mischievousness of charity.
Mr. Prohack
5
He had just the right blend of energy and mischievousness.
The Irish Times
1
The director's puckishness starts to grate pretty quickly.
The Irish Times
2
His voice is a little raspier than it once was, but that signature puckishness is fully intact.
The Irish Times
3
Here, as he rolls a joint to the disapproval of his married friend's square wife, he has Peter's insolence and puckishness.
The Guardian
Usage of impishness in inglês
1
There was in this something of impishness, and something of other things.
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
2
Snub nose and short, bristling, red hair emphasized the impression of impishness.
Gather, Darkness!
3
Kara's face instantly became serious and the impishness left her tone.
Unity
4
The girl's face had gone politely blank, but then she twinkled with impishness.
Sushi for one?
5
But his impishness still comes as something of a surprise.
The Irish Times
6
Concealed by his impishness and gabby affability was a moral compass that was broken.
Secret of the seventh son
7
This was a thriller that appealed to the familiar in him,-theimpishness that died hard.
Joyce of the North Woods
8
I said I wasn't answering. But Rook's impishness faded when he saw her all-business stare.
Driving Heat
9
There was a sort of boyish impishness about him.
The Little Warrior
10
Here was escape, heartsease, happiness-herein this bottled impishness.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
11
A sudden spirit of impishness made Jack Fyfe sprint.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
12
For a moment he looked serious, with no trace of impishness on his creased old face.
American Gods
13
His countenance was of portentous gravity, but in his eyes she seemed to detect a lurking impishness.
The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes)
14
She caught a swift glimpse of laughing faces, the impishness of their mischievous eyes made her shiver.
Little Miss By-The-Day
15
Her eyes gleamed with a veiled impishness.
The Iron Furrow
16
Now, was that more or less than the impishness that's in all boys, prince or gutter rat?
The Justice of the King
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Impishness through the time