(n.) Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport.
(n.) Cause of trouble or vexation; trouble.
(v. t.) To do harm to.
Example Sentences:
(1) They want to send a very clear message to China that they are serious about this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest This image from the US navy purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief reef in the disputed Spratly archipelago in May 2015.
(2) Steering the debate through these turbulent waters with more than his usual sense of mischief was David Dimbleby .
(3) And he was not above a spot of mischief on that score, imagining perhaps - and despite the prime minster's known stance – a time of closer European integration.
(4) | Howard W French Read more In the South China Sea, China has, by massive dredging operations, turned submerged reefs with names out of the novels of Joseph Conrad – Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef – into artificial islands, and is completing a 3,000m runway on Fiery Cross.
(5) Nelson said: "Against the cacophony of the 24-hour news era, there has never been a greater need for what the Spectator offers: wit, style, mischief, elegance of thought and independence of opinion.
(6) Their carefully judged mischief lightened the whole mixture like stiffly beaten egg-whites.
(7) Campaigning before the June election Demirtaş had been full of mischief, needling Erdoğan, making fun of the AKP’s gaffes.
(8) He had a chirpy self-confidence even then and a sense of humour, but what made him attractive to a journalist was his enthusiasm for mischief.
(9) Did an implied "come up and see my target seat" let a political supremo make passes at women well out of his league – or did they make it up and risk all for mischief?
(10) He wrote with mischief and a sometimes acid eye about the theatre of politics.
(11) There is a new thirst for characters, for mischief-makers and rascals, for politicians whose mistakes make them more accessible to the rest of us.
(12) If they are not rascally Tories making mischief or communist infiltrators, then they are leftie romantics, their heads in a dwam and full of ideals incompatible with modern, monetarist Britain.
(13) The anecdote describes both his ego and his attachment to mischief-making – and it might even be true.
(14) Some people have tried to make mischief by claiming that the pupil premium is not additional money.
(15) 'Positive points are difficult to find today,' he said in that gnomic way of his that falls between irony and mischief.
(16) In the fevered Daily Mail version, this fact suggests a nefarious and hyperactive court, up to mischief and rejoicing in 'overruling' national authorities, better to promote the interests of sex offenders and the homicidal.
(17) US manoeuvre in South China Sea leaves little wiggle room with China Read more The guided-missile destroyer reportedly received orders to travel within 12 nautical miles (22.2km, or 13.8 miles) of the Spratlys’ Mischief and Subi reefs, which are at the heart of a controversial Chinese island building campaign that has soured ties between Washington and Beijing.
(18) I suspect that messrs Fry and Connolly – who grew up watching this man segue from gar- landed stage-thesp to tireless campaigner (Stonewall, women's and children's rights) to Hollywood catnip to that dreadful position for anyone with a fine remaining sense of mischief: being on the cusp of national-treasure status – were equally conscious of the company they were in.
(19) The introduction of Olsen in place of the sad and utterly disorientated McGrath for the last 15 minutes provided no answers as Oxford's willingness and determination to push wide down the flanks where Phillips was always a source of mischief only served to underline the frailty to United's current defensive framework.
(20) Gizewski could be accused of eccentricity (there is also a long letter to Social Democrat party members on his site, explaining why they should have voted against a coalition with Merkel's party), and perhaps of wilful mischief – he could have just linked to one of the thousands of other scans of Mein Kampf you can find on Google.
Pixie
Definition:
(n.) An old English name for a fairy; an elf.
(n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
Example Sentences:
(1) I resented my own parents on far flimsier grounds (unwillingness to buy me purple suede pixie boots, for instance).
(2) Their European tour , which finishes in London on Monday, is sold out and there seems to be a general consensus that Pixies, who suddenly find themselves with everything to prove, are playing ferociously.
(3) • Black Francis speaks of Kim Deal's departure from the Pixies
(4) We started seriously talking about recording new music about four years ago,” Pixies drummer David Lovering explained.
(5) Aside from asking Essex to "put a ring on it", she'll debut that new pixie cut in the UK.
(6) The rights of women and of minority populations and vulnerable and low-income people are under threat and we must do everything we can to protect these rights and fight for true equality.” Musician Pixie Geldof, writer Stella Duffy, activist Jack Monroe and US rock musician Thurston Moore are supporting the London march, while in the US organisers claim that many of the musicians who have refused to play at Trump’s inauguration will join them.
(7) Scott Morrison says Labor 'selling a unicorn' with negative gearing savings Read more “I can sell them a fantasy or whatever you want to call it, pixie horses, whatever your preferred analogy is, but I’m not going to spin the public a line that there is some simple answer to getting expenditure down,” Morrison told 3AW on Friday.
(8) Whatever they’ve been talking about in public – tax cuts, steel workers’ jobs, unicorns, pixie horses , negative gearing, etc – behind the scenes politicians from all parties have been utterly preoccupied for months with this proposed change.
(9) The inhibition by PIXI of factor XIa-catalyzed activation of factor IX and its capacity to prevent factor XIa inactivation by alpha 1-protease inhibitor, combined with the specificity of PIXI for factor XIa among serine proteases found in blood, suggest a role for PIXI in the regulation of intrinsic coagulation.
(10) He has engineered more than 2,000 records – by bands you mostly won’t have heard of, although a few of them you will, including PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom, Pixies, Fugazi and that little three-piece out of Seattle, Nirvana .
(11) But unlike, say, Duran Duran or the Pixies, they've never really been away, so there's no opportunity to key into the nostalgia circuit.
(12) pIXY 321 may offer significant clinical advantages over the individual cytokines.
(13) Pixies made me forget I was dressed in a bin-liner I wasn't expecting too much from the Pixies before their second from top slot on the Other stage .
(14) Clockwise from top left: Grimshaw with Kelly Osborne; Sara Cox and Annie Mac at the Brit awards; Queens of Noize DJ Tabitha Denholm; dressed as Lily Allen, off to Mark Ronson’s birthday party; at Amy Winehouse’s funeral; with Henry Holland; Pixie Geldof and Alexa Chung at the NME awards afterparty; predecessor Chris Moyles.
(15) Look, Pixie Geldof has found a big conker made of twigs, and it might have something to do with River Island, and she looks quite pleased .
(16) The full title of this event is the artistic gymnastics, and for 2012 the event seems to want to place the emphasis on art; thus the competitors were played in with a curious acoustic set from singer Pixie Lott, standing in the middle of the floor mat, surrounded by feline acrobats in latex body stockings.
(17) The festival in question, Summer in the City, has officially announced some of its July performers: Pixies and Royal Blood on 10 July, and James with Starsailor on 11 July.
(18) Double dissolution is a 'live option' as Morrison rules out 'pixie horse' tax cuts Read more The Coalition government kept the option of calling a double-dissolution election up its sleeve, he said, and could pull the trigger if the Senate “becomes inoperable”.
(19) Widely read, with a quick wit and sharp intelligence, she was also a devoted partner and mother to her and Geldof's extravagantly-named daughters, Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie.
(20) "Today, the thrill and pixie dust of Barack Obama's presidency is gone."