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prankish

[prang-kish] / ˈpræŋ kɪʃ /


ADJECTIVE
elfish
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I was delighted that she was granted a prominent place in the adaptation’s second act, but it’s a shame that, like all the characters, she becomes a pawn in O’Hara’s prankish plot.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2025

Workplaces, theater marquees, pillows, municipal services: everything starts to absorb their prankish tendencies until the ending sequence combines it all into a kind of over-the-top, technicolor uneasiness.

From Salon Oct. 6, 2023

Missives like Meredith’s clarify the latent danger in some of the riot’s more prankish elements.

From Slate Jan. 12, 2021

Wilson’s sensibility is more humane than harsh, poetic than prankish.

From New York Times Nov. 2, 2020

“Come,” he says, prankish, leading me through the house.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black




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