Definition of "impish" []

• Of or befitting an imp; mischievous. (adjective)

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• "Only he kept mounting higher and higher, till at last his impish tormentors -- _impish_, I said -- dared follow him no farther."
• "What we have called the impish daring and resource of Cochrane is shown in this strange fight."
• "Best known as the impish Master of Ceremonies from "Cabaret"-Walter Kerr described him, in 1966, as "sin on a string"-Grey is still, at seventy-nine, one of Broadway's most beloved character actors."