prankish
Example Sentences
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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
The movie, however, shrewdly relishes all identities in its mix of the humor inherent in his prankish folly and the sentimentality of a pie-in-the-sky dream.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2022
Missives like Meredith’s clarify the latent danger in some of the riot’s more prankish elements.
From Slate • Jan. 12, 2021
In a lot of ways, the story of Gabriel Whaley mirrors the story of MSCHF: both are prankish outsiders.
From The Verge • Jul. 27, 2020
But there was nothing prankish about ruining the sneakers.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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