Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing mischief.
- adjective Playful in a naughty or teasing way.
- adjective Troublesome; irritating.
- adjective Causing harm, injury, or damage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing or tending to produce mischief or harm; injurious; deleterious; hurtful.
- Fond of mischief; full of tricks; teasing or troublesome: as, a mischievous boy.
- Synonyms Destructive, detrimental. See
injury . - Roguish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Causing
mischief ;injurious . - adjective
Troublesome ,cheeky ,badly behaved .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deliberately causing harm or damage
- adjective naughtily or annoyingly playful
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Palmer looked at Ariana, his expression mischievous, and popped another piece of gum into his mouth.
Sweet Deceit Kate Brian 2010
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Palmer looked at Ariana, his expression mischievous, and popped another piece of gum into his mouth.
Sweet Deceit Kate Brian 2010
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Of course, many of her own things had taken to hiding in mischievous, little places as well.
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One of the highlights of his set yesterday was the title track, a study in mischievous innuendo.
Jazzfest: Going Crazy With John Boutté - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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One of the highlights of his set yesterday was the title track, a study in mischievous innuendo.
Jazzfest: Going Crazy With John Boutté - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Dave mentioned the vocabulary words she offers up during brainstorming sessions and how she this morning suggested the word mischievous and then offered to spell it for him.
On challenging my youngest child « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2007
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She did not draw it away until he had raised it to his lips, when she told him in mischievous tones to bring her a rose from Hades.
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He looked at her, and made his expression mischievous, or meant to make it.
The Folly Of Eustace 1896 Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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If the force of the disease made him to fall, the malice of the devil made him to fall into the fire or water; so mischievous is he where he gains possession and power in any soul.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Saraki also appealed to those he called mischievous people who wanted to use the present situation to cause problem to stop, saying this is about all of us.
pedalinfaith commented on the word mischievous
It would be mischievous of you to pronounce this word miss-CHEE-vee-us when you know how much I hate that.
December 9, 2006
milosrdenstvi commented on the word mischievous
Three syllables only.
November 8, 2009