"imp" is an acceptable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a mischievous or evil spirit, especially one from folklore. For example, "The local villagers believed that the imp was responsible for the disappearance of their livestock."
He was the thorn in everyone's side, the gleeful imp who was just there to cause trouble.
Furthermore, party activists (as opposed to its voters) regard him as arrogant, a self-indulgent star rather than a team player.Not even Mr Schröder, though, disputes the wonders that Mr Lafontaine, now looking earnest and responsible, and quite unlike the erratic imp of yore, has worked for his long demoralised party.
(delineavit): "he drew it"; imp.
On Christmas Day 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as Roman emperor, and, thenceforth, his deniers, either with the temple type and "Christian" legend or with a mint name alone, styled him Kar(o)lus Imp.
I have been talking of the imp of the perverse; the perilous and taboo thoughts that we may experience, sometimes with great frequency.
Poe called it "the imp of the perverse", and I once went out for a long time with a woman whose pleasure in visiting country churches was, she admitted, enhanced by the rude things she felt like doing in them.
Or so, however much the mischievous internal imp might crave a Trump vs Hillary showdown, you would hope.
Meanwhile his murderer, Tyrion "the Imp" Lannister (Peter Dinklage), despite having at last sight shot daddy dearest and strangled his ex-lover with a gold chain, provides the episode with some much-needed humour.
Robert Heneghan was branded "the imp of Satan" in 2004 after the then 10-year-old and his 11-year-old accomplice were given a court order for terrorising an area of Blackpool with ball bearing guns, knives and baseball bats.
He isn't an Imp he is the Devil himself.' "Everyone in the system - school, family, social workers, probation, lawyers have tried to help him but they have all failed…Now he is to do a life term for killing someone he knew - a mate," they went on.
A pop-culture imp; swivel-eyed, windmill arms, bowler hat with stockings'*'suspenders, enormo-plastic gospel hands and neon fizzing graphics.
