prankish
Example Sentences
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Given its overabundance of empty shock humor, the movie seems afraid to be about much of anything except its toy monkey’s prankish body count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 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
