prankishness

This is the sort of "prankishness" one imagines Kazin to have been complaining about and that no longer ” after fifty years of postmodern experimentation (and five Zuckerman books by Philip Roth) ” sticks in our craw.

Justice to J.D. Salinger Malcolm, Janet 2001

They were the mysterious, the unknown, and who was I, a seven-year-old, to analyse them and know their prankishness?

Chapter 4 2010

He lost his easy affability, his prankishness, and much of his good humor.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

Brendan Gill, writing in The New Yorker, referred to some of his work as "boyish prankishness."

A Maverick Master 2008

And I think that the prankishness of George's books, this dressing up in a quarterback's togs, playing golf with Sam Snead and all that, tied in somehow with the prankishness, the game-ness, this willingness to be fantastic which related to George's experiences at the Lampoon.

The Last Gentleman 2003

But Sarah and Mellie, in their overalls and dirty baseball jerseys, never had the boys 'heartless prankishness, the little devils dancing in the blacks of their eyes.

Excerpt: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom 2000

Like "Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written.

The Shield of Silence George [Illustrator] Loughridge

Like "Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written.

Eve to the Rescue Ethel Hueston 1933

Like "Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written.

Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

They were the mysterious, the unknown, and who was I, a seven-year-old, to analyse them and know their prankishness?

Chapter IV 1913