prankish
Example Sentences
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Given its overabundance of empty shock humor, the movie seems afraid to be about much of anything except its toy monkey’s prankish body count.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025
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
“Come,” he says, prankish, leading me through the house.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
