Sample Sentences for
mischievous
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    I was crazy about his smile, which made him look so boyish and mischievous.  (source)
    mischievous = naughtily playful
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    When his mouth went straight, he was being mischievous.  (source)
    mischievous = playfully causing minor trouble
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    I must warn you, though, that they are rather mischievous. [the Oompa-Loompa]  (source)
    mischievous = tending toward playful misbehavior
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    "But to be honest," she whispered with a mischievous look, "some of the tellings are a little boring."  (source)
    mischievous = naughtily playful
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    What food for gossip to those mischievously inclined.  (source)
    mischievously = with a tendency of playful misbehavior
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    Cecil, who had his full share of mediaeval mischievousness, replied that the physique of the lower middle classes was improving at a most appalling rate.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    For she'll get busier and mischievouser every day—she will, bless her.†  (source)
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    Peter's mischievous look disappears.  (source)
    mischievous = naughtily playful
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    Hermione suddenly smiled very mischievously, and Harry noticed it too: It was a very different smile from the one he remembered.  (source)
    mischievously = in a manner that playfully causes minor trouble
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    They hinted at a playfulness, a mischievousness, that life's disappointments hadn't quite snuffed out.†  (source)
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    His eyes had a mischievous, reckless light in them.  (source)
    mischievous = naughtily playful
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    She leaned back from them, even hit out at them, but playfully, mischievously.  (source)
    mischievously = in a manner that playfully causes minor trouble
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    But Mrs. Morland knew so little of lords and baronets, that she entertained no notion of their general mischievousness, and was wholly unsuspicious of danger to her daughter from their machinations.†  (source)
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