prankish

Example Sentences

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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