scampish

His representations of the great and the good are often coloured by a very scampish sense of irony, even in his traditional portraiture.

They were scampish, ruthless men of outsized ambition, and they quickly booked a string of hit shows.

"I think we killed enough people in Oxford," Mr. Dexter says with a scampish grin.

Kirkus Reviews called it "Sly and scampish".

For the sitcom’s run from 1989 to ’93, Zack’s early adoption was a totem of his Los Angeles affluence and his wheeling-and-dealing scampish streak.

Mr. Bosworth’s expansive, scampish personality was stamped everywhere, so much so that it was common to speak of a cult of personality at the school.

Born in 1969, Kirsty led a very full, scampish and much-loved life before arthritis, respiratory problems and old age sullied her final months in the physical world.

But this fancy-dress outing didn't fully satisfy Miltner's interest in the online photos of scampish kittens with annotations in the intentionally stupid dialect known as "lolspeak".

Caught up in mystical transport, Armand is exposed to the sunlight, and only the intercession of a wealthy young orphan and her scampish companion saves him from obliteration.

Kathryn Gamberoni gave a lovely account of Sharp-Ears's music, and acted the scampish part with the combination of endearingly and infuriatingly foxy qualities that the libretto suggests.

A scampish schoolboy at the beginning of the series, as he matured he harboured dreams of joining the air force, however inner-ear problems prevented this and he instead joined the army.

Stage-filling opulence and a scampish sense of humor are combined in "Don Quixote," which will be performed by American Ballet Theater in its first weekend back at the Met.

McIlroy was also at his scampish best in revisiting a telephone call from Greg Norman, who contacted him in Malaysia the week after his meltdown to offer words of consolation.

A lively and memorable Warner Brothers movie, "Three on a Match" begins with three little girls, one a scampish delinquent, one studious and hard working, and one the class beauty.

It's doubtful that Thompson's antics - like setting fire to the door of the Jimmy Carter aide Hamilton Jordan's New York hotel room in 1976 - would be looked on as scampish by today's PC commissars.

Mr. Shahid, a scampish 62 and a once and forever acolyte of his ex-employer, Calvin Klein, obviously intuits it politic to keep all skin undercover when shooting the verbal breeze with a square, straight reporter in the harsh light of day.

As for Eldridge's singing style, jazz critic Whitney Balliett describes Eldridge as "a fine, scampish jazz singer, with a light, hoarse voice and a highly rhythmic attack," comparing him to American jazz trumpeter and vocalist Hot Lips Page.