Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for mischievousness

mischievousness

Discover More

Example Sentences

To keep himself loose and pliable and imbued with the mischievousness that nourished him, Paul often resorted to practical jokes.

He was always sending impossible offerings to the magazines; innocently enough sometimes, but often out of pure mischievousness.

A very large proportion of the acts of mischievousness and wrong which boys commit arise from this cause.

The bandit seemed to her a decent man, a poor fellow whose mischievousness was exaggerated by popular fancy.

The falsity of the first two of these claims and the mischievousness of the last are self-evident.

She laid her finger tips upon his arm in proprietory fashion while a sly malice shone through the mischievousness of her smile.

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement