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prankish

[prang-kish] / ˈpræŋ kɪʃ /


ADJECTIVE
elfish
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Her latest experiment, at the Connelly Theater, is “Kate,” directed by Bo Burnham, a brainy, busy, dizzy, prankish one-woman show.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2022

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

"The Gentlemen" continues to showcase his crass flash, featuring more sophomoric antics than prankish teenage schoolboys.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2020

But there was nothing prankish about ruining the sneakers.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier