mischief-maker
Example Sentences
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Henry Arundell, a 20-year-old fresher in the side, had been chief mischief-maker by scoring five of 11 tries in a 71-0 win.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2023
Surrealist mischief-maker Luis Buñuel gives no answers or explanations.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2020
It's like the third-grader who knows that the teacher's gonna yell at them — the mischief-maker?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2017
“He remains the immature mischief-maker, a well-meaning dad with the instincts of a reckless kid,” Mr. Zinoman writes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2017
Believe me, there is no flat malice, no hateful story, no absurd tale which a skillful mischief-maker cannot make the idlers of a large town believe....
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet
