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
In 2008, he and a co-host set off a national uproar after broadcasting on Brand’s BBC radio show the prankish voice messages they left for Andrew Sachs, a beloved former actor on “Fawlty Towers.”
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2023
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
But there was nothing prankish about ruining the sneakers.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
