prankishness

Example Sentences

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Alberto Barbera, the director of the Venice Film Festival, suggested that the audience’s familiarity with the original — and with von Trier’s prankishness — played a role in its positive reception.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2022

Staged briskly, but not always fluidly by Rita Giomi, the play's ingenuity, smarts and verbal prankishness are amusing.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2010

But his love of technology and democracy, coupled with an ad man's eye for prankishness, has seen him carve out a unique space in open government circles.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2010

But the poetry dances in and out of the prankishness, the air is brushed with light, the carousing invokes no shudders and provides some laughs.

From Time Magazine Archive

He gave his Trilby a Scotch ancestry to connect her the more naturally with the lutin d'Argail; and her fairy ancestry will easily account not only for her early prankishness, but for her later unreality.

From Trilbyana The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel by Gilder, Jeannette Leonard