prankish
Example Sentences
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I was delighted that she was granted a prominent place in the adaptation’s second act, but it’s a shame that, like all the characters, she becomes a pawn in O’Hara’s prankish plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
Workplaces, theater marquees, pillows, municipal services: everything starts to absorb their prankish tendencies until the ending sequence combines it all into a kind of over-the-top, technicolor uneasiness.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2023
Missives like Meredith’s clarify the latent danger in some of the riot’s more prankish elements.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2021
Wilson’s sensibility is more humane than harsh, poetic than prankish.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2020
But there was nothing prankish about ruining the sneakers.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
