Crossword clues for impishly
impishly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impishly \Imp"ish*ly\, adv. In the manner of an imp.
Wiktionary
adv. In an impish manner; mischievously.
WordNet
adv. in an appealing but bold manner; "she asked him impishly to come in" [syn: puckishly]
Usage examples of "impishly".
Will retorted impishly, knowing full well that she had been correcting him, as he stepped back from his uncle.
He smiled around impishly, the firelight making odd highlights on his lips and cheeks.
Curling with an intricate aimlessness curiously like that of such a streamer, it tantalized the silvery fingers of a thousand relays, saucily evaded the glances of ten thousand electric eyes, impishly darted down a narrow black alleyway of memory banks, and, reaching the center of the cube, suddenly emerged into a small room where a suave fat man in shorts sat drinking beer.
She stopped at the foot of the dock, then stuck out her thumb like a hitchhiker, impishly raising one pant leg to expose a foot or so of tan calf.
Tocohl and grinned impishly in response, pleased that she could accomplish that much at least.
Time and again he would catch himself listening for he knew not what, approaching warily the corner of the next huge monolith as if thinking to surprise behind it some ghoulish rite, glancing apprehensively down the corridors he passed, or overshoulder for some nameless thing that stalked him and was never there when he looked, but ever lurked impishly just beyond the tail of his eye.