prankish

Example Sentences

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Given its overabundance of empty shock humor, the movie seems afraid to be about much of anything except its toy monkey’s prankish body count.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 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

The assembled, who knew not Dr. Trefusis’s prankish humor, little knew what to make of this curious discourse.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson