All 3 Uses of
mischievous
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- For more than a month past, the mischievous child, who knew not what to wish for, had taken it into his head to have a monkey.†
Chpt 43-44 *
- When he was only eleven, he chose his companions from among the young men of eighteen or twenty, the worst characters in Bastia, or, indeed, in Corsica, and they had already, for some mischievous pranks, been several times threatened with a prosecution.†
Chpt 43-44
- The count, who perceived that M. and Madame de Villefort were beginning to speak in parables, appeared to pay no attention to the conversation, and feigned to be busily engaged in watching Edward, who was mischievously pouring some ink into the bird's water-glass.†
Chpt 59-60
Definition:
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(mischievous) playfully causing minor trouble; or describing the smile of someone doing so