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Mischievous

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Adjective

1. arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked

naughtily or annoyingly playful

Example Sentences:
'teasing and worrying with impish laughter'
'a wicked prank'

2. mischievous

deliberately causing harm or damage

Example Sentences:
'mischievous rumors and falsehoods'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mischievous

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adjective
1. 
inclined to acts of mischief
2. 
teasing; slightly malicious
a mischievous grin
3. 
causing or intended to cause harm
a mischievous plot

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Mischievous

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adjective
1. 
causing mischief
; specif.,
a. 
injurious; harmful
b. 
prankish; teasing; full of tricks
2. 
inclined to annoy or vex with playful tricks; naughty
said esp. of a child

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Mischievous

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adj.
1. Causing mischief.
2. Playful in a naughty or teasing way.
3. Troublesome; irritating: a mischievous prank.
4. Causing harm, injury, or damage: mischievous rumors and falsehoods.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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