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the gang of impish children ran into the street, utterly oblivious to the traffic
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Host Nick Offerman brings his usual impish warmth to this Netflix documentary, but the real draw is hearing famous people describe their own journeys (sometimes good, sometimes bad, always memorable) with psychedelic drugs.
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Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2024
Schiff shucked the microphone and walked off with an impish smile.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
By third grade, the impish Pearson smashes a bully over the head with a bottle.
—Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
Until then, Musk had always had an impish streak in him that eventually became magnified, subsuming the rest of his personality.
—Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
In the years since that encounter, Cartmill and her colleagues have analyzed 75 hours of footage from two zoos of chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas exhibiting similarly impish behavior.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
Projection designer Daniel Brodie conjures enchantment with an impish wink, but visually the show is nothing to look at.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
The music, with its famous coyote howl (which Morricone imitates with impish glee), seemed to exist in its own pop dreamscape.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Feb. 2024
Mercutio, a bit unhinged but utterly lovable, can prove the most challenging role in the story, but Flynn gives him an impish, lovably boyish core beneath his penchant for troublemaking.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2024
Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2024
Schiff shucked the microphone and walked off with an impish smile.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
By third grade, the impish Pearson smashes a bully over the head with a bottle.
—Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
Until then, Musk had always had an impish streak in him that eventually became magnified, subsuming the rest of his personality.
—Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
In the years since that encounter, Cartmill and her colleagues have analyzed 75 hours of footage from two zoos of chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas exhibiting similarly impish behavior.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
Projection designer Daniel Brodie conjures enchantment with an impish wink, but visually the show is nothing to look at.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
The music, with its famous coyote howl (which Morricone imitates with impish glee), seemed to exist in its own pop dreamscape.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Feb. 2024
Mercutio, a bit unhinged but utterly lovable, can prove the most challenging role in the story, but Flynn gives him an impish, lovably boyish core beneath his penchant for troublemaking.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2024
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1652, in the meaning defined above
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“Impish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impish. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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