prankishness
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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
He was amiability itself, and showed genuine distress when Dennis took occasion to scold him for some piece of inconvenient prankishness.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
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