impish

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I've wondered about that as well -- and it is strange to me. Hackers are widely-known for their impish pranks.

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naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank"

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adjective

naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for impish.

adjective

naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank"

Example sentences

I've wondered about that as well -- and it is strange to me. Hackers are widely-known for their impish pranks.

Feynman comes across as egotistical to me - it's a big part of his impish charm.

My image of the impish young hacker is enhanced by some weird-o stickers.

The word "hacker" is taken, and has a more impish, generalist connotation.

Wow 19 million for a couple of characters, that are an impish abbreviation of 'web log', for virtual placeholders.

How many internet arguments have been spared because someone could attach a winky face to show that they were being impish and not to take offence?

Pressumably they were using the map editor to make warp zones and trigger areas and discovered this impish creation by combining the two.

" - It was Leo Szilard, a man with an impish sense of humor, who supplied the perfect reply to Fermi's rethoric: - "They are among us," - he said, - "but they call themselves Hungarians.

I see no reason why I should support a materialist bacchanalia of blood red and evergreen worshiping a pagan monstrosity trafficking in impish minions to tempt and subvert good Christian hearts from the simple truth of salvation and redemption."Sparkle"?