About The Word Mischievous
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Mischievous
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What's The Definition Of Mischievous?
[adj] badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy"
[adj] deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods" [adj] naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter" Synonyms | Synonyms for Mischievous: bad | harmful | impish | implike | naughty | pixilated | playful | prankish | puckish Related Terms | Find terms related to Mischievous: annoying | arch | artful | bad | baleful | baneful | bothering | bothersome | corroding | corrosive | corrupting | corruptive | counterproductive | damaging | dangerous | deadly | deleterious | destructive | detrimental | devilish | disadvantageous | disserviceable | distressing | elfish | elvish | evil | foolish | foxy | frolicsome | full of mischief | harmful | hazardous | high-spirited | hurtful | ill | ill-behaved | impish | injurious | insidious | irking | irksome | knavish | larkish | lethal | malefic | malevolent | malicious | malign | malignant | misbehaving | mischief-loving | naughty | noisome | noxious | ominous | paw | perilous | pernicious | playful | poisonous | prankish | pranksome | pranky | precarious | prejudicial | puckish | rascally | risky | roguish | scampish | scapegrace | scatheful | sly | spiteful | sportive | toxic | trickish | tricksy | tricky | venenate | veneniferous | venenous | venomous | vexatious | vexing | vicious | virulent | waggish | wicked See Also | Mischievous In Webster's Dictionary \Mis"chie*vous\, a.
Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied
where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a
mischievous child. ``Most mischievous foul sin.'' --Shak.
This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably
mischievous to society. --South.
Syn: Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious;
destructive. -- {Mis"chie*vous*ly}, adv. --
{Mis"chie*vous*ness}, n.
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