Both Uses of
mischievous
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- They were so much alike and so mischievous during childhood that not even Santa Sofia de la Piedad could tell them apart.
Chpt 10 *mischievous = naughtily playful
- Nevertheless Fernanda divided her time in those days between little Amaranta Ursula, who was mischievous and sickly, and a touching correspondence with the invisible physicians.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(mischievous) playfully causing minor trouble; or describing the smile of someone doing so
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In law, mischievous references a property crime such as vandalism or graffiti. Very rarely, the word can reference someone or something causing serious damage.
In archaic literature mischievous often refers to bad behavior without any connotation of playfulness or of the harm being minor.