prankishness
Example Sentences
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Alberto Barbera, the director of the Venice Film Festival, suggested that the audience’s familiarity with the original — and with von Trier’s prankishness — played a role in its positive reception.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022
Staged briskly, but not always fluidly by Rita Giomi, the play's ingenuity, smarts and verbal prankishness are amusing.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2010
But his love of technology and democracy, coupled with an ad man's eye for prankishness, has seen him carve out a unique space in open government circles.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2010
Where the Dirker comes down heavy on prankishness, Sybilla tends to the winsome and the ingenious.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written.
From The Sea Bride by Williams, Ben Ames
