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playfully causing minor trouble; or describing the smile of someone doing soIn law, mischievous references a property crime such as vandalism or graffiti. Very rarely, the word can reference someone or something causing serious damage.
- She flashed a mischievous grin and threw the water balloon.
mischievous = playful — often in an annoying or naughty way
- The mischievous children spilled chocolate syrup all over the kitchen.
- 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.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- "Are you Via's boyfriend?" Auggie asked mischievously, and his sister pulled his cap down over his face.R.J. Palacio -- Wonder
- She leaned back from them, even hit out at them, but playfully, mischievously.Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon
- 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.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- "But to be honest," she whispered with a mischievous look, "some of the tellings are a little boring."Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- 'That's all right, Padre,' he answered with mischievous merriment, trying hard to keep a straight face.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- It was set on fire by mischievous boys, one Election night, if I do not mistake.Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- 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.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
- What food for gossip to those mischievously inclined.Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Hermione suddenly smiled very mischievously, and Harry noticed it too: It was a very different smile from the one he remembered.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- I was crazy about his smile, which made him look so boyish and mischievous.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- I must warn you, though, that they are rather mischievous. [the Oompa-Loompa]Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
- They were so much alike and so mischievous during childhood that not even Santa Sofia de la Piedad could tell them apart.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- And I found myself doing all sorts of mischievous things simply to have something to tell you about.George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- I was sweeping the hearth, and I noticed a mischievous smile on her lips.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- "I do, and I do not," said he mischievously.Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
- His eyes had a mischievous, reckless light in them.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- "Going out for exercise," answered Jo with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
mischievous = tending to create minor harm (often in a fun way)
mischievous = naughtily playful
mischievously = in a manner that playfully causes minor trouble
mischievously = in a manner that playfully causes minor trouble
mischievous = naughtily playful
mischievous = naughtily playful
mischievous = naughtily playful
mischievous = having fun by causing minor trouble
mischievous = naughtily playful
mischievously = with a tendency of playful misbehavior
mischievously = in a manner that playfully causes minor trouble
mischievous = naughtily playful
mischievous = tending toward playful misbehavior
mischievous = naughtily playful
mischievous = naughtily playful
mischievous = naughtily playful
mischievously = in a playfully naughty manner
mischievous = naughtily playful
mischievous = naughtily playful
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