frolicsome - Full of high-spirited fun; frisky and playful.
Usage: The frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes.
flagitious - Shockingly brutal or cruel.
Usage: All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect regularity in the bodily figure.
sapient - Having great wisdom and discernment.
Synonyms: perspicacious, sagacious
Usage: The book is a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators.
off-color - In violation of good taste even verging on the indecent.
Synonyms: indelicate
Usage: The shareholder's meeting was entirely the wrong forum for his off-color joke.
sacerdotal - Of or relating to priests or the priesthood.
Usage: The priest donned his sacerdotal vestments and entered the sanctuary.
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