impishness

Ishmael's reply was in that very formal tone that masked what in anyone else might have been termed impishness.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

Ishmael's reply was in that very formal tone that masked what in anyone else might have been termed impishness.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

But he did it not from hauteur but from impishness.

Daredevil 2009

Immediately Tudor's monkey-like impishness left him, and he was once more the cool, self-possessed man of the world.

Chapter 26 2010

We may never know if the poem is, in fact, slander or is evidence of some hidden impishness on Milton's part.

John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem John Lundberg 2010

But spend enough time with him, and you might start to feel that he did it out of sheer impishness, a desire to change something simply because it could be changed.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

But he did it not from hauteur but from impishness.

Daredevil 2009

Bob proved a handful of impishness and contrariety, and he tried out his rider as much as his rider tried him out.

Chapter XI 2010

With a schlubby, mustachioed Matt Damon and his part-trivial part-fantasy deadpan voiceover, Soderbergh is putting the impishness of his title character front and center.

Damon is best thing about “The Informant!” » Scene-Stealers 2009

That momentary impishness, that glimpse of the old Avy, disappears.

Famous Todd Strasser 2011