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

It is not just boyish prankishness either; some of the "undergrads" have been going to school for 15 or 20 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were the mysterious, the unknown, and who was I, a seven-year-old, to analyse them and know their prankishness?

From John Barleycorn by London, Jack