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mischievous
adjective as in devilish, wicked
Weak matches
arch, artful, bad, bothersome, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, exasperating, foxy, frolicsome, harmful, hazardous, hurtful, ill, ill-behaved, injurious, insidious, irksome, malignant, misbehaving, perilous, pernicious, precarious, puckish, rascal, rascally, risky, sinful, spiteful, sportive, teasing, tricky, troublesome, vexatious, vexing, vicious, wayward
Example Sentences
Eliava, in contrast, was a mischievous charmer who pranked his friends, once dressing as a woman to flirt with d’Hérelle at a dinner party, and kept sketchy notes in the lab.
He has rolled a giant grenade into the middle of the nation’s capital and watched with mischievous glee to see who runs away and who throws themselves on it.
Labubu, her legion of fans will tell you, is female, the size of a cat and a tad mischievous.
The animal was "very funny and quite mischievous," she added, but ultimately "thought he was one of them".
But in a statement, the head of Cameroon's civil cabinet said Biya was well and condemned the "mischievous individuals" speculating about the president's health and "eventual death".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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