mischief-making
Example Sentences
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“In order to maintain the idea of himself, he needs someone to play along,” said the British actor, recently seen as a mischief-making ambassadorial spouse in “The Diplomat” on Netflix.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2024
One of the D.C. area’s quirkiest holiday traditions features Santa water skiing on the Potomac River, alongside elves and reindeer, and the mischief-making Grinch on a Jet Ski.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2021
News rankings and the moral value of all his mischief-making.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021
Michael Riedel, the New York Post’s mischief-making Broadway columnist for more than two decades, has chronicled with incendiary flamboyance the backstage dramas of megalomaniacal producers, peremptory divas and the cowering artists caught in the crossfire.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2020
Elisha called this private upper floor “a sort of sanctuary; a retreat to which we are driven by mischief-making eyes and tongues. There, like wounded deer we escape the hunters.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
