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mischievous trick
noun as in practical joke
Example Sentences
I Get Rich Again—My Adventure At Dolo—Analysis of a Long Letter From C. C.—Mischievous Trick Played Upon Me By P. C.—At Vincenza—A Tragi-comedy At the Inn Necessity, that imperious law and my only excuse, having made me almost the partner of a cheat, there was still the difficulty of finding the three hundred sequins required; but I postponed the task of finding them until after I should have made the acquaintance of the dupes of the goddess to whom they addressed their worship.
She is a firm believer in jumbles, and is one of those privileged people who, it is said, can talk to these gloomy beings, and, by some potent charm known only to themselves, hinder them from playing any mischievous trick.
But one day, I must tell you, a large hawk played the lad a very mischievous trick.
In Scotland he had met Cydonia, through a mischievous trick of Lady Leason's.
Go ahead and get it over, and then we’ll get even with Dr. Helen some way for playing us such a mischievous trick.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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