prankish

Example Sentences

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“It remains as outrageously prankish, juvenile, and derisive as ever,” writes David Denby in the New Yorker magazine’s blog.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2024

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

In a lot of ways, the story of Gabriel Whaley mirrors the story of MSCHF: both are prankish outsiders.

From The Verge • Jul. 27, 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