When he's going to make some smart aleck remark, you can see him fighting back an impish grin while he's working out the wording.
Source: tatoeba (8971810)
Impish
//ˈɪmpɪʃ//
Synonyms for "impish" (46 found)
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Adjective(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (23)
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Synonyms
6 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
37 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- немирен adj (mischievous)
- палав adj (mischievous)
Catalan
1 entries- entremaliat adj (mischievous)
Dutch
1 entries- ondeugend adj (mischievous)
Esperanto
1 entries- petolema adj (mischievous)
Finnish
1 entries- ilkikurinen adj (mischievous)
French
3 entries- espiègle adj (mischievous)
- malicieux adj (mischievous)
- mutin adj (mischievous)
Galician
4 entries- aduaneiro adj (mischievous)
- cazurro adj (mischievous)
- falcatrueiro adj (mischievous)
- lagarteiro adj (mischievous)
German
3 entries- koboldhaft adj (mischievous)
- schelmisch adj (mischievous)
- spitzbübisch adj (mischievous)
Greek
1 entries- διαβολικός adj (mischievous)
Hungarian
3 entries- csintalan adj (mischievous)
- huncut adj (mischievous)
- pajkos adj (mischievous)
Italian
2 entries- malevolo adj (mischievous)
- maligno adj (mischievous)
Latin
1 entries- diabolullicus adj (mischievous)
Portuguese
2 entries- levado adj (mischievous)
- travesso adj (mischievous)
Spanish
2 entries- pícaro adj (mischievous)
- travieso adj (mischievous)
Welsh
1 entries- direidus adj (mischievous)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
That impish man is a preeminent economist.
Source: tatoeba (12338119)
That impish man over there is my ex-husband.
Source: tatoeba (12338132)
Wild-eyed youngsters they were, with matted hair and little broad-nosed impish faces, covered (as some children are covered even nowadays) with a delicate down of hair.
Source: wiktionary
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