What is "impish"

Usage examples of "impish".

Then her eyes opened and she grinned-an impish grin that at once took Blade back to the notion of her as a girl barely out of her teens.

Often after tramping twenty miles through the sleet-soaked, snow-drifted spring forests, arriving at an Indian village foredone and exhausted, the Jesuit was met with no better welcome than a wigwam flap closed against his entrance, or a rabble of impish children hooting and jeering him as he sought shelter from house to house.

Back at Hesed, her twin sons were probably fast asleep or enjoying a midnight feeding, Kiel a tiny mirror image of his father, and strong-willed Kinnor with those tight auburn curls, that impish face.

I thought her bright blue eyes were full of misch There was something impish about her beauty and way she had learned early on to twist and turn N colm.

An impish grin transformed her features, and a pixieish light glinted in the depths of her brown eyes.

A delicate solido stood above the control panels, the image of a lovely young woman with an impish smile and clustering curls of red hair.

Seeking a way to lessen the palpable tension, she rummaged through her stock of fables and, struck by an impish impulse, selected a tale.

She gawked and made him chuckle when she gave him her famous impish grin.

CHAPTER 3 Visions tumbled through Phousita's mind like paper images tossed about by an impish wind: scraps of memory, half-forgotten knowledge, outright fantasy, all aswirl, visible for a moment, then gone, gone, gone away to nowhere, swept around a corner, she couldn't catch them, hold on to them, every bit of her life slipping by.

Cadderly quickly clarified, seeing the impish smile growing and wanting to limit the power of whatever being he next summoned.

His shoelaces were untied, his cowlicks fully aroused, and his grin as impish as ever.

Jack Crasher basked in the grins of his beautiful bride and his impish baby son.

She was so beautiful, and under that lush female exterior remained so much of the impish child that distinguished her from all the other minionettes in his estimation.

According to Andy, one of the gunslingers was actually a woman, but Callahan saw no need to muddy the waters further (although an impish part of him wanted to, just the same).

Turn that page and there is yet another cartoon, this one reminiscent of some of the impish, elfin sketches in the Sickert collection at Islington Public Libraries.