impish

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imp +‎ -ish

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impish (比较级 more impish, 最高级 most impish)

  1. 顽皮的,调皮捣蛋
    • 1897, H. G. Wells, 章号 1, 出自 A Story of the Stone Age[1],于9 March 2012归档自原页面:
      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.
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    • 1942, Virginia Woolf, 章号 20, 出自 The Death of the Moth, and other essays[2],于24 February 2011归档自原页面:
      But the antics of Mr. Moore, though impish and impudent, are, after all, so amusing and so graceful that the governess, it is said, sometimes hides behind a tree to watch.
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