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  • 'That's all right, Padre,' he answered with mischievous merriment, trying hard to keep a straight face.   (source)
  • Mischievous little beggars they are, both of them, but talk about keenness!   (source)
    mischievous = tending toward playful misbehavior
  • Is it very wicked of me, Marilla, to feel encouraged when I hear that other people have been bad and mischievous?   (source)
    mischievous = naughtily playful
  • What food for gossip to those mischievously inclined.   (source)
    mischievously = with a tendency of playful misbehavior
  • "Going out for exercise," answered Jo with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes.   (source)
    mischievous = naughtily playful
  • To climb a wall, to break a branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime.   (source)
  • I was sweeping the hearth, and I noticed a mischievous smile on her lips.   (source)
  • It was set on fire by mischievous boys, one Election night, if I do not mistake.   (source)
    mischievous = having fun by causing minor trouble
  • It's a little too mischievous for my liking.†   (source)
  • MY FATHER, GENE, WAS one of those young men who somehow manage to seem both solemn and mischievous.†   (source)
  • "Of a sort," he says mischievously.†   (source)
  • As she stood there in the middle of the sidewalk, with her head tilted up at us, and that quizzical look on her face, she looked like a mischievous child.†   (source)
  • Mullet Fingers, who was shaking a snail off one of his new sneakers, flashed a mischievous glance.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps you should go to the hospital, Angela; it's been so long since you've seen your Doctor D." She winked mischievously, but only Flora Baumbach smiled back.†   (source)
  • He's looking over his shoulder with a mischievous, enticing smile, and he has no clothes on.†   (source)
  • Essay stood in front of him, gaze resolute, mouth agape, eyes glinting and mischievous, as if waiting to see his reaction from that distant night.†   (source)
  • The girl isn't smiling, but she has a mischievous glint in her eye that reminds me of Kitty.†   (source)
  • His face was permanently stuck in a mischievous grin, showing a mouthful of white button teeth, as if he was about to do something he knew he wasn't supposed to—which was almost always the case.†   (source)
  • Paul grinned mischievously.†   (source)
  • Peter's mischievous look disappears.†   (source)
  • He stood beside her, silent, until her dark eyes narrowed and her lips crept up mischievously.†   (source)
  • I felt a mischievous smile creeping across my face.†   (source)
  • For the first time, I noticed that a lot of the campers had similar features: sharp noses, upturned eyebrows, mischievous smiles.†   (source)
  • Teabing looked mischievous.†   (source)
  • She grinned mischievously.†   (source)
  • His upper lip stretched into a long archer's bow, Ty's big smile that made him look handsome and mischievous.†   (source)
  • It was clear from their plan — and from Sticky's mischievous grin — that by tomorrow most of the students at the Institute would be barfing up their suppers.†   (source)
  • Annie arched her eyebrows mischievously.†   (source)
  • She had a mischievous grin on her face.†   (source)
  • All traces of his mischievous smile are gone now.†   (source)
  • I was getting a little mischievous by then as well.†   (source)
  • It was not intended, I think, as an entirely mischievous remark, but the remark took instant and astonishing hold of Lydia and my grandmother and me.†   (source)
  • He laughs to himself, eyes glinting mischievously.†   (source)
  • He grins mischievously and drums his fingers against the locker.†   (source)
  • Like talking to young men, unsupervised," she said with a mischievous smile.†   (source)
  • But Dr. Erland said nothing else, only smiled at her with mischievous eyes that filled her with suspicion.†   (source)
  • His beautiful, strong, mischievous, generous, fun-loving sister.†   (source)
  • "So," Eric said with a mischievous grin on his face, "what are you going to do?"†   (source)
  • "Are you going to the husking bee tonight?" she inquired mischievously.†   (source)
  • He was mischievous and a terrible student, but he was hard to beat in an argument.†   (source)
  • I waited to see a flash of the old Laura, with the mischievous grin and inevitable wisecrack, but none of that came.†   (source)
  • This girl had bright red hair; her movements were swift, her face sharp and mischievous and strange, and her eyes were an odd color, a golden honeybee brown.†   (source)
  • She smiled mischievously.†   (source)
  • His eyes are mischievous, his lashes are long.†   (source)
  • Abruptly, his unpredictable mood shifted again; a mischievous, devastating smile rearranged his features.†   (source)
  • I didn't envy them the uncertainty of their existence; but I did envy that sense of promise I could well remember, that the evening ahead might yet hold some mischievous pleasure.†   (source)
  • Fenoglio smiled as mischievously as one of his grandsons.†   (source)
  • The dummy grinned up at her, a mischievous grin on his face.†   (source)
  • George was an enormous, mischievous, grown-up kid.†   (source)
  • Autumn came and with it a whole new mischievous game: Attack the Leaf Pile.†   (source)
  • He required his pupils to take the following oath: I will follow that system or regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider to be for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.†   (source)
  • Her voice was louder as she peered at me with a mischievous expression.†   (source)
  • Bibwit's ears twitched mischievously.†   (source)
  • Their principal, Mr. Krupp, would probably have a few more choice words to include, like sneaky, and criminally mischievous, and "I'll get those boys if it's the last thing I ..."†   (source)
  • A mischievous smile spread across her face.†   (source)
  • "Sure," the intelligence officer said mischievously.†   (source)
  • Aunt Queen smiled with a mischievous grin.†   (source)
  • But then I finally saw her coming through the side doors of the lobby, her hair beneath her bonnet brim sparkling from the light rain, the child rushing as if on a mischievous escapade, lighting the faces of doting men and women as she mounted the grand staircase and passed me, as if she hadn't seen me at all.†   (source)
  • Boy, there's a mischievous side to Lemry.†   (source)
  • At its edge was a silver-framed photograph of a dark-haired girl, beautiful but with a mischievous look; a young woman on her way to becoming dangerous, he thought.†   (source)
  • He had a bit of a mischievous grin on his face which I suspect came from his private thoughts about Jason's work experience on Gus Caldwell's ranch.†   (source)
  • "I'm going dancing tonight," Jennie said, mischievously tapping out a rhythm on the floor.†   (source)
  • Bram grins mischievously at me, still wearing his sleep-clothes.†   (source)
  • With her white linen dress, her winter gloves, her sweet toothless smile, and the mischievous gleam in her hazel eyes, she looked exactly as she had when Alba was a child.†   (source)
  • "I just had to see your rocket, Sonny," she said mischievously, taking me by my arm and walking me away from the other girls.†   (source)
  • I also had a secret weapon in Osten, who was the most mischievous of us all and would help me if I asked him to, probably with minimal persuasion.†   (source)
  • If she were a petite woman, the hair would be too cute, too mischievous and contrived.†   (source)
  • Then he grinned, mischievously.†   (source)
  • His mouth was the only feature I could see beneath it, and it curved in a mischievous smile.†   (source)
  • He was a nineteen-year-old assistant manager with a sly, mischievous look.†   (source)
  • A shiver of rage ran through me as I noticed his mischievous smile.†   (source)
  • At the family table, this mischievous older sister handed me a plate that contained a single chicken wing.†   (source)
  • The eyes are petulant, mischievous.†   (source)
  • A mischievous glint in her eye revealed that she was joking—a little bit.†   (source)
  • His gorgeous eyes, so dark they looked black and bottomless, sparkled mischievously.†   (source)
  • "I know you're not the type of girl to make out with random guys in the woods," he'd said with a mischievous grin, "but maybe you should be."†   (source)
  • Want another bite?" he asks mischievously, acting like the Alex I know.†   (source)
  • They hinted at a playfulness, a mischievousness, that life's disappointments hadn't quite snuffed out.†   (source)
  • Then he breaks into a mischievous smile and brushes past me.†   (source)
  • As he was brought into the warehouse, Smith recognized his old foe, Dewey; he stopped chewing a hunk of Doublemint gum he had in his mouth, and grinned and winked at Dewey, jaunty and mischievous.†   (source)
  • For one thing, many are just plain mischievous.†   (source)
  • The girl was slender, with glossy dark hair pulled back from her face, and a mischievous expression.†   (source)
  • Larry Wakeford stares in silence at the blonde, butch-cut, mischievously cocked head of a student-a delightfully contentious senior named Leslie-and notices a ray of late afternoon sunlight reflecting off her nostril stud.†   (source)
  • Months went by, in fact, before our "home" changed much at all from what it was the day we moved in—bare floors, blanket partitions, one bulb in each compartment dangling from a roof beam, and open ceilings overhead so that mischievous boys likeRay and Kiyo could climb up into the rafters and peek into anyone's life.†   (source)
  • She was milky pale, with short curly brown hair and thick glasses over mischievous brown eyes.†   (source)
  • "If I were you, Johnnie, I'd just aspire as hard as I could in that direction," she said recklessly, her mischievous glance upon the flowing lines of Johnnie's young shoulders and throat.†   (source)
  • He showed them in a mischievous grin when Tom pulled up in the Chevy.†   (source)
  • She giggled mischievously.†   (source)
  • For a heartbeat it seemed as if a mischievous boy was peering out from inside the cheesemonger's bloated flesh.†   (source)
  • August is gracious, charming, and mischievous—so much so that as the evening wears on I begin to think the incident with Rex was just a joke gone awry.†   (source)
  • ALLAN CAMERON was a mischievous kid.†   (source)
  • Noah shot me his mischievous grin.†   (source)
  • "We should walk through the forest," she said with a mischievous glint in her eyes.†   (source)
  • Aven said with a mischievous grin.†   (source)
  • He got a mischievous look in his eye.†   (source)
  • Now there was a time—" He grinned mischievously.†   (source)
  • They're barely out of their teens, tall and skinny with mischievous eyes.†   (source)
  • Concerned that Pollard's famously mischievous ad-libs might get them kicked off the air, Alexander had come prepared.†   (source)
  • And the Communists are much too mischievous.†   (source)
  • "Have you been to Anaheim?" he asked mischievously.†   (source)
  • Nudge was trying not to laugh, even Fang was grinning, and the Gasman looked ...mischievous.†   (source)
  • She had a mischievous smile and looked ready to take on the world.†   (source)
  • I saw April smile mischievously at Jalil.†   (source)
  • "Time to go," she replied with a mischievous smile.†   (source)
  • Wait a minute...Cesar looked over Maria's shoulder and saw his players watching and grinning mischievously.†   (source)
  • Some of the mischievous creatures tried to escape; others attempted to compromise our virtue.†   (source)
  • Like a mischievous childhood playmate, memory taunted him from hiding place after hiding place in a deep garden of the past dappled by light and shadow.†   (source)
  • He reportedly says to his jurors if his teaching about the nature of virtue "corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person."†   (source)
  • The appointment of a second person as Vice President has been objected to as superfluous, if not mischievous.†   (source)
  • She gave me a mischievous grin I hadn't seen in thirty years.†   (source)
  • "That's her job," Veronica says, and then adds, in a dramatic, mischievous tone: "She's the nurse of the night."†   (source)
  • Commerce looked over at me with a mischievous, excited expression.†   (source)
  • HESTHER [mischievously]: A new God.†   (source)
  • Mischievous.†   (source)
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  • He paused for a moment, then glanced mischievously up at the towering figure of his passenger.†   (source)
  • As they were leaving the convent door, the big nun swooped down on her mischievously and nearly smothered her in the black habit, mashing the side of her face into the crucifix hitched onto her belt and then holding her off and looking at her with little periwinkle eyes.†   (source)
  • (Mischievously) Is it good, son Roper†   (source)
  • But this mischievous, girlish infatuation was short-lived.†   (source)
  • Mischievously, at the suggestion of those sounds, Bowman's heart leapt again.†   (source)
  • She looked at him with the droll, mischievous expression of a child.†   (source)
  • And I found myself doing all sorts of mischievous things simply to have something to tell you about.   (source)
    mischievous = naughtily playful
  • "I do, and I do not," said he mischievously.   (source)
    mischievously = in a playfully naughty manner
  • In fact, every one seemed to like her; even the boys did not tease her, and the boys of our town, especially the schoolboys, are a mischievous set.   (source)
    mischievous = naughtily playful
  • The Widow Wycherly--if so fresh a damsel could be called a widow--tripped up to the doctor's chair, with a mischievous merriment in her rosy face.   (source)
  • It was obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be Andrusha—the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in childhood.   (source)
    mischievous = tending toward playful misbehavior
  • "Is it because you like him?" asked Ximena, smiling mischievously.†   (source)
  • She rolled her eyes, and he smiled at her mischievously.†   (source)
  • Later, Morrie would grin mischievously and say, "I'm getting to him.†   (source)
  • He smiles at me mischievously and yells, "Darth Vader!"†   (source)
  • She grins mischievously, in a way that makes her look like a teenaged shirtwaist girl again.†   (source)
  • Angela winked at Eragon mischievously, then dashed away, spinning her staff-sword like a dervish.†   (source)
  • "Well, he probably used up a lot of resources helping me knock you out," I say mischievously.†   (source)
  • I snap my gaze back up to his and he's grinning mischievously again.†   (source)
  • "I'm not sure," Doug said mischievously.†   (source)
  • She grinned mischievously, like a little blonde elf.†   (source)
  • The queen smiled mischievously, and for the first time, Hazel felt jealous of Reyna.†   (source)
  • Connor cackled mischievously and thumped the table with his fist.†   (source)
  • Both of them grinned mischievously at me when I climbed into the passenger's seat.†   (source)
  • He stopped a dozen paces to the east and twirled around, eyes sparkling mischievously.†   (source)
  • Everyone turns to stare at me and he grins mischievously.†   (source)
  • JILL [mischievously]: Ladies and gentlemen aren't naked?†   (source)
  • "Live and let live, Cassie," her mother said, meaning it mischievously.†   (source)
  • Her eyes sparkled mischievously.†   (source)
  • She squinted at me mischievously.†   (source)
  • He grinned mischievously.†   (source)
  • His eyes glinted mischievously.†   (source)
  • She grinned mischievously.†   (source)
  • She'll simply let you know that she wants you to ask her," Cynthia added, her eyes twinkling mischievously.†   (source)
  • His smiled mischievously.†   (source)
  • Grandfather's eyes gleam mischievously.†   (source)
  • He smiled mischievously.†   (source)
  • I'll never know what possessed them, riding in like that," said Miss Myra almost mischievously; and Miss Theo turned.†   (source)
  • She leaned out even farther, glancing back at Garrett with a mischievous smile.†   (source)
  • I said this last thing to be mischievous.†   (source)
  • Glick turned to Macri with a mischievous wink.†   (source)
  • Even his mischievous smile was Johann's.†   (source)
  • Mary Whitney was a fun-loving girl, and very mischievous and bold in her speech when we were alone.†   (source)
  • A mischievous grin crosses Gavin's face.†   (source)
  • Sonny had a loud laugh and mischievous eyes that squinted nearly closed when he smiled.†   (source)
  • I noted the mischievous gleam in her eye.†   (source)
  • "But Layken," Kel gives Caulder a mischievous grin.†   (source)
  • Pullum pointed at me and grinned a mischievous grin.†   (source)
  • "Uh-huh," she said, her expression mischievous.†   (source)
  • She almost couldn't help looking mischievous.†   (source)
  • "You catch my drift?" he said, smiling a mischievous grin.†   (source)
  • She gave me a mischievous smile, but seeing her again was almost too painful to bear.†   (source)
  • Then, with a mischievous grin: "Could be worse, though, too."†   (source)
  • Blaze shrugged, her expression mischievous, and Ronnie smiled.†   (source)
  • She paused, and her eyes took on a mischievous gleam.†   (source)
  • A mischievous grin rearranged his features.†   (source)
  • Julie's eyes took on a mischievous gleam as she leaned forward in her seat.†   (source)
  • A mischievous twinkle entered Mr. Vincenti's eyes.†   (source)
  • He was quite the mischievous child at times, so I can only imagine how frustrated you must get.†   (source)
  • They both grin at me like mischievous little boys.†   (source)
  • "You're welcome," Sophia said, her expression mischievous.†   (source)
  • Finally Courtney looked at Mark with a mischievous smile and said, "I'm gonna try it.†   (source)
  • She chuckled and the mischievous sparkle in her eyes made her look like a little girl.†   (source)
  • I promise I won't get them so fast," Max said with a mischievous grin.†   (source)
  • The smuggler laughed like a mischievous girl.†   (source)
  • They're Chinese, and Chinese are mischievous.†   (source)
  • Such mischievous calling cards I have, I'm afraid.†   (source)
  • Marco soon joined them, followed by a mischievous boy named Paolo.†   (source)
  • I loved the way his lips turned up—part mischievous smile, part man of mystery.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, he thought, he'd done it because he was feeling good and a little mischievous.†   (source)
  • She gave them a quick, mischievous grin, and whispered, "But they seem so silly-!†   (source)
  • Once the woman had gone, Nigel looked at Max with a decidedly boyish, mischievous expression.†   (source)
  • Her face, then, made one think of a mischievous street boy.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Tuttle rushes for the ladies' dressing room, holding fast to her mischievous skirts.†   (source)
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