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mischievousness
noun as in mischief
Strong matches
- atrocity
- catastrophe
- devilment
- devilry
- deviltry
- evil
- fault
- friskiness
- frolicsomeness
- gag
- harm
- hurt
- ill
- impishness
- injury
- misbehavior
- misconduct
- misfortune
- naughtiness
- outrage
- playfulness
- prank
- prankishness
- rascality
- roguery
- roguishness
- sabotage
- shenanigans
- sportiveness
- tomfoolery
- transgression
- vandalism
- waggery
- waggishness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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