prankish
Example Sentences
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In 2008, he and a co-host set off a national uproar after broadcasting on Brand’s BBC radio show the prankish voice messages they left for Andrew Sachs, a beloved former actor on “Fawlty Towers.”
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2023
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
The movie, however, shrewdly relishes all identities in its mix of the humor inherent in his prankish folly and the sentimentality of a pie-in-the-sky dream.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2022
Missives like Meredith’s clarify the latent danger in some of the riot’s more prankish elements.
From Slate • Jan. 12, 2021
“Come,” he says, prankish, leading me through the house.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
