prankish
Example Sentences
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“It remains as outrageously prankish, juvenile, and derisive as ever,” writes David Denby in the New Yorker magazine’s blog.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2024
Missives like Meredith’s clarify the latent danger in some of the riot’s more prankish elements.
From Slate • Jan. 12, 2021
"The Gentlemen" continues to showcase his crass flash, featuring more sophomoric antics than prankish teenage schoolboys.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2020
Wilson’s sensibility is more humane than harsh, poetic than prankish.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2020
The assembled, who knew not Dr. Trefusis’s prankish humor, little knew what to make of this curious discourse.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
