prankish
Example Sentences
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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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
