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Mischievous

adjective

Naughtily or annoyingly playful. Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked. "A wicked prank"

Deliberately causing harm or damage.

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"Mischievous" Quotes from Famous Books

... his dishonor by the loss of his wits. In the latter case, just now, he felt little more tenderly to the foolish old man than in the former. Responsible or not, he was equally an accomplice of his detestably mischievous daughter. Newman was going to leave him abruptly, when a ray of entreaty appeared to disengage itself from the old man's misty gaze. "Are you going away?" ...

— The American • Henry James

... once upon a time a witch, who in the shape of a hawk used every night to break the windows of a certain village church. In the same village there lived three brothers, who were all determined to kill the mischievous hawk. But in vain did the two eldest mount guard in the church with their guns; as soon as the bird appeared high above their heads, sleep overpowered them, and they only awoke to ...

— The Yellow Fairy Book • Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang

... Unitarian faith, which she held with earnestness to the last; and the name "Free Church" became more significant to her through the suggestion it carried of a religion detached from creeds and articles. Many entries occur in her diaries protesting against what she felt as mischievous narrowness in the books she read and in the sermons she heard. She sympathized heartily with Lord John Russell's dislike of the Oxford movement. There are many prayers in her diaries and many religious reflections in her letters, and ...

— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell

... creature, dressed in a robe of deep crimson, made of some soft and filmy and complicated material; there was a crimson rose in her hair, and a living glow of crimson in her cheeks. She was bright and quick, like a butterfly, full of strange whims and impulses; mischievous lights gleamed in her eyes and mischievous smiles played about her adorable little cherry lips. Some strange perfume haunted the filmy dress, and completed the ...

— The Metropolis • Upton Sinclair

... as might have been expected, these confident and often-repeated asseverations have been by no means unproductive of mischievous results: ...

— The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark • John Burgon

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