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rascally
[ras-kuh-lee] 
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elfin
[el-fin]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mischievous; small |
| Synonyms: | delicate, devilish, disobedient, elfish, frolicsome, impish, little, minute, misbehaving, naughty, petite, playful, prankish, puckish, puny, rascally, slight, sprightly, tiny |
| Main Entry: | impish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mischievous |
| Synonyms: | casual, devil-may-care, devilish, elfin, elvish, fiendish, flippant, free and easy, fresh, frolicsome, giddy, jaunty, naughty, offhand, pert, pixieish, playful, prankish, puckish, rascally, saucy*, sportive, waggish |
| Antonyms: | behaved, subdued, unmischievous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mischievous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | devilish, wicked |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, bad, bothersome, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dickens, evil, exasperating, foxy*, frolicsome, harmful, hazardous, holy terror, hurtful, ill, ill-behaved, impish, injurious, insidious, irksome, malicious, malignant, misbehaving, naughty, nocuous, perilous, pernicious, playful, precarious, puckish, rascal, rascally, risky, rude, sinful, sly, spiteful, sportive, teasing, tricky, troublesome, vexatious, vexing, vicious, wayward |
| Antonyms: | behaved, good, nice, obedient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | miscreant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil, immoral |
| Synonyms: | corrupt, criminal, degenerate, depraved, flagitious, infamous, iniquitous, nefarious, perverse, rascally, reprehensible, reprobate, unhealthy, unprincipled, vicious, villainous, wicked |
| Antonyms: | good, moral, nice |
| Main Entry: | naughty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, misbehaved |
| Synonyms: | annoying, badly behaved, contrary, disobedient, disorderly, evil, exasperating, fiendish, fractious, froward, headstrong, impish, indecorous, insubordinate, intractable, mischievous, obstreperous, perverse, playful, rascally, raunchy, recalcitrant, refractory, rough, rowdy, sinful, teasing, tough, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, wanton, wayward, wicked, willful, worthless, wrong |
| Antonyms: | behaved, controlled, good, obedient |
| Main Entry: | ribald |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, obscene |
| Synonyms: | base, bawdy, blue*, coarse, devilish, earthy, fast*, filthy*, foul-mouthed, gross*, indecent, indecorous, juicy, lascivious, lewd, licentious, low-down and dirty, naughty, off-color, out of line, purple*, racy, rascally, raunchy, raw*, risqué, rogue, rough, rude, salacious, salty, scabrous, scurrilous, sly, smutty, spicy*, unbecoming |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, decent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roguish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful; mischievous |
| Synonyms: | beguiling, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceiving, deceptive, devilish, dishonest, fraudulent, impish, knavish, lying, naughty, playful, puckish, rascally, shifty, slick, sly, sneaky, tricky, underhand, underhanded, unprincipled, untruthful |
| Main Entry: | knavish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | arrant, deceitful, fraudulent, frolicsome, rascally, unprincipled, unscrupulous, villainous |
| Antonyms: | honorable, noble, virtuous |
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