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mischievous
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  • When his mouth went straight, he was being mischievous.  (source)
  • Peter's mischievous look disappears.  (source)
    mischievous = naughtily playful
  • "But to be honest," she whispered with a mischievous look, "some of the tellings are a little boring."  (source)
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  • His eyes had a mischievous, reckless light in them.  (source)
    mischievous = naughtily playful
  • 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
  • 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)
    mischievousness = the quality of playfully causing minor trouble
    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.
  • For she'll get busier and mischievouser every day—she will, bless her.†  (source)
    mischievouser = more likely to playfully cause minor trouble
  • I was crazy about his smile, which made him look so boyish and mischievous.  (source)
    mischievous = naughtily playful
  • She leaned back from them, even hit out at them, but playfully, mischievously.  (source)
    mischievously = in a manner that playfully causes minor trouble
  • They hinted at a playfulness, a mischievousness, that life's disappointments hadn't quite snuffed out.†  (source)
    mischievousness = the quality of playfully causing minor trouble
  • But now you are four years wiser and I am still the mischievous, unrepentant boy you remember.  (source)
    mischievous = naughtily playful
  • What food for gossip to those mischievously inclined.  (source)
    mischievously = with a tendency of playful misbehavior
  • Yet, as you stood there beside him, I could not help feeling too that in many respects he was a richer man than I." At this Eustacia said, with slumbering mischievousness, "What, would you exchange with him—your fortune for me?"†  (source)
    mischievousness = the quality of playfully causing minor trouble
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