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- noun
Impish orplayful behaviour;mischief .
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Examples
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But while equipped with eyes like twin stars, hair ruddier than the cherry, oomph, espieglerie and all the fixings, B. Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb.
Lance Mannion: 2010
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But while equipped with eyes like twin stars, hair ruddier than the cherry, oomph, espieglerie and all the fixings, B. Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb.
Bertie Wooster on the mischief-making talents of a certain redhead 2010
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Even her ambiguities and espieglerie were but media of the same manifestation; acted charades, embodying the words of her prototype, the tender and susceptible daughter-inlaw of Naomi:
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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By the way, for an updated Wooster with true viagra, immoral uplift and espieglerie, do have a look at James Leigh's vastly stylish and entertaining novel Hangdog Hall, published online by onlineoriginals.com.
Wodehouse lives Michael Allen 2005
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A propos, for an updated Wooster-ish saga with added oomph, viagra and espieglerie, do take a look at James Leigh's vastly stylish, sunny and side-splitting Hangdog Hall, published online by Online Originals onlineoriginals.com
P.G. Wodehouse: Mr Mulliner speaking Michael Allen 2005
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She was petite, mignonne, graceful, fairy-like, yet with a touch of Yankee quaintness and a delicious espieglerie that made her absolutely unique in my experience of women.
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` ` She next bewitched all by the delicate naïveté and sparkling espieglerie, interchanged with true love pathos, of her duet with Belletti, from Rossini's I Turchi in Italia, the music being in the same voice with that of his ` Barber of Seville. '
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Even her ambiguities and espieglerie were but media of the same manifestation; acted charades, embodying the words of her prototype, the tender and susceptible daughter-in-law of Naomi: 'Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid.'
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884
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He had all the brightness of the Tuscan folk, a sort of innocent malice mixed with _espieglerie_.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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He had all the brightness of the Tuscan folk, a sort of innocent malice mixed with _espieglerie_.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
jay.dugger commented on the word espieglerie
the quality or state of being roguish or frolicsome
A friend of mine dated a fellow who used this adjective in his Yahoo! profile.--Sunday, 8 April 2007
April 8, 2007
madmouth commented on the word espieglerie
Wooster on Bobbie Wickham in Jeeves in the Offing:
"What with that espieglerie of hers, which was tops, she had been pretty extensively wooed in one
quarter and another for years, and no business had resulted, so that it was generally assumed that only something extra special in the way of suitors would meet her specifications and that whoever eventually got his nose under the wire would be a king among men and pretty warm stuff"
April 16, 2009
qms commented on the word espieglerie
The fables of Wodehouse quite regularly
Exemplify manic integrity.
This brilliant absurd,
In Bertie's own word,
Grows out of inspired espieglerie.
June 1, 2015