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Recent Examples of imp The son is his father’s fiendish double, an antic, self-loathing imp who, loudly proclaiming his adoration of Eli-Leizer, makes a mockery of him. Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025 Combining animation and live action, the film continues the adventures of the magical imp Pumuckl. Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025 But read two more and the skeptical imp within you awakens. Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025 Tim Burton's film explores the border between life and the afterlife with some of the best in the biz, from Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin’s wholesome (and dead) homeowners to Winona Ryder's angsty teen to her ridiculous mother (Catherine O'Hara) to the imp with a limp (Michael Keaton). Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for imp
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Noun
  • The trip then took the monkeys to Dallas and finally to Nebraska with the help of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Wildlife Confiscations Network.
    TJ Macias, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Casati Stampa di Soncino inhabited Peggy Guggenheim’s former home Palazzo Venier dei Leoni and infused Venice with 1920s glamour, wild parties with big band music and monkeys and filled it with famous guests like her lover, poet Gabriele D’Annunzio and visual artist Man Ray.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are returning as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren who are trying to vanquish a demon from a family’s home.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The inevitable showdown between the demon, which manifests in various forms during the film, is wild and exhausting, and gives Wilson and Farmiga, as consistent and excellent as always throughout, a powerful performative and emotional last stand.
    Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The term Jab Jab itself comes from the French term for devil.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2025
  • In Michelangelo’s Last Judgment a devil drags one of the damned to hell by his testicles (which sounds like heaven to me).
    Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Video footage recorded by their owner Macie Lamb shows two pups, Ace and Tango growling at a decorative object that resembles a small ceramic dog wearing a ghost costume while holding a pumpkin in its mouth.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • But March’s family, which has seen their factory turned upside down by the ghost of a former employee, rejects the relationship.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The little ghouls at your party will howl for this tropical smoothie.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2025
  • There are a lot of stock viewer-goosings: Screaming ghoul faces, crawling insects, waking nightmares and other jump scares, including the sonic kind of sudden loud noises or silences.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • All 500-year-old vampires will be able to watch Talamasca on their television sets in linear fashion on AMC.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In the two minute trailer (below), the death of someone close to a secret society charged with monitoring the world’s immortals, including witches and vampires, prompts the group to seek out a new recruit in the form of a young unsuspecting man, Guy Anatole (Nicholas Denton).
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Imp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imp. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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