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prankish

[prang-kish] / ˈpræŋ kɪʃ /


ADJECTIVE
elfish
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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

Korine has always had a hand in other creative endeavors, which coalesce into something of a unified worldview that mixes an outsider’s love of pop culture, prankish humor and thoughtful artistic explorations.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023

What the prankish and abundantly coifed 40-year-old Mr. Gaetz, a Florida Republican, plans to do with his new clout is a matter of intense speculation in Washington.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2023

Missives like Meredith’s clarify the latent danger in some of the riot’s more prankish elements.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2021

“Come,” he says, prankish, leading me through the house.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black




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