(a.) Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child.
Example Sentences:
(1) The appearance of a band with lean, spiky songs, high cheekbones and excellent trousers was therefore the cause of considerable excitement, to which they mischievously alluded in the title of their debut album, Is This It.
(2) In response, the ANC secretary-general, Gwede Mantashe, said the critics were "mischievous" and the party should be allowed to run its own affairs.
(3) You don't have to be against the minority of SAHMBY (stay-at-home mothers by choice) to consider their involvement in this debate a complete, and sometimes mischievous, distraction.
(4) It hasn’t helped that one mischievous customer appears to have added a crease to the carton on the right to make it look even more like a penis.
(5) "I want to reassure my friend Eduardo that there is no chance of me hanging on to the Olympic flag at the closing ceremony", joked Johnson, before adding mischievously "As protocol demands I will be handing it over to Eduardo — probably."
(6) Three seasons in the media spotlight in Madrid have clearly done him no harm, and when a potentially mischievous question comes along about England temporarily transferring their support to Wales he defuses it politely and diplomatically.
(7) Moir, who has won a British Press Award, made a statement defending her column late on Friday, saying it was not her intention to offend, blaming a "heavily orchestrated internet campaign" for the furore and adding that it was "mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones".
(8) The final seconds of the movie are the most memorable, in which Smokey assures Big Worm he’s going to rehab, before hanging up the phone and lighting a joint with a mischievous grin to the camera.
(9) These fairies have sharp, mischievous features, quite different from the later fairies of Bethlem.
(10) Prime ministers are very useful to a treasurer,” Keating said mischievously, and Hawke and I had a great relationship until he “produced a nasty little book”.
(11) The first point to note is that Sally's spirit guides were in a particularly mischievous mood during the reading, because they persuaded Sally to make statements such as: Sally: Is there the name Robyn?
(12) What is not so well known is his mischievous streak.
(13) The moderator of the conference demanded that Aydin switch to Turkish; a fellow Kurd came mischievously onto the platform to translate.
(14) Richard E Grant and Anna Chancellor join the cast, with Grant playing a guest of the Granthams and Chancellor the mischievous Lady Anstruther.
(15) At the time, a friend of Rennard told the BBC the "shocking and mischievous" leak was "in total defiance of fair process" and had caused great distress to the peer.
(16) Outside of the octagon, Bisping possesses the demeanour of an oversized Ricky Hatton - all mischievous grins, wisecracks and gentle ribbing of his sparring partners.
(17) Updated at 10.58am BST 10.55am BST Is the chancellor being too dramatic by declaring this morning that NO Help To Buy mortgages can be granted at more than 4.5 times the borrowers' income, asks a mischievous Robert Peston.
(18) He bubbles with mischievous excitement, recounting the range of thugs, creeps and gorgeous males who fell under his spell ("It was like a conduit had opened").
(19) Raphael wrote: “We believe our audience is sophisticated enough to accept a broad range of viewpoints, and we are loth to censor or avoid significant works of literature because they might be controversial.” BBC Radio 4 Publicity said online: “In Hilary Mantel’s mischievous story, a knock at the door announces an unexpected visitor who has plans to alter the course of history as people know it.
(20) For his part, Mr Taleb may have felt mischievously reported.
Puckish
Definition:
(a.) Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over time, the name has lost its punny puckishness much as the movement has steadily shifted from a proudly anacharical – even populist – response and rebellion within the GOP to a smoothly functioning alternative to it.
(2) As a novelist, she was preoccupied by the intersection between power and personality, which she represented, in what became trademark fashion, in a variety of puckish settings.
(3) Asked how Russia's oligarchs are bearing up, Lebedev is almost puckishly cheerful.
(4) Lars Von Trier is known for being unpredictable, quixotic, puckish and deliberately provocative.
(5) Here, as he rolls a joint to the disapproval of his married friend's square wife, he has Peter's insolence and puckishness.
(6) His face was puckish but kind, and flickered between reflection and mischief.
(7) Joe is a prototypical working class American male – stout, thick, jovial, moralistic, but with a puckish curiosity about how the other half lives.
(8) Jack is lanky, friendly and restless; Jade shorter, puckish, with a ponytail.
(9) I’ve hit a wall here.” The Republican presidential primary lost Lindsey Graham, its only voice of reason | Lucia Graves Read more Despite an accomplished résumé and a puckish sense of humor , Graham was never able to gain any traction in the Republican primary.
(10) Photograph: Karen Robinson Puckish Mathieu Amalric caught the pundits by surprise when he scooped the Cannes director prize for his 2010 burlesque caper On Tour.
(11) In recent years, she has dominated Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre: as the shape-shifting fairy in Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker ; as Strindberg’s fallen aristocrat Miss Julie ; as self-deluding alcoholic Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ; and as a puckish but ferocious Hamlet , all directed by Sarah Frankcom .
(12) There are fewer flashes of the puckish humour these days and he is more cautious in his pronouncements, but he is nonetheless saying more than the government would like, and recent actions by his supporters speak still louder.
(13) The warmth of public affection for "the arch" was evident on Thursday amid the otherwise austere grandeur of the 19th-century St George's Cathedral , once a bastion of resistance to apartheid where the puckish Tutu rallied hearts and minds.
(14) From Warhol 's stars to the early incarnations of David Bowie , from the puckish sexual innocence of Marc Bolan to the studied posing of photographer Nan Goldin 's transvestite friends, from Iggy Pop 's self-destructiveness to Alice Cooper 's cultivation of a dangerous persona, the sense that the self is something to be constantly reinvented and performed remains a kind of lesson, however trite and contrived some of those performances might now appear.
(15) He seems more relaxed and puckish now, weaving though the streets of his adopted home town.
(16) Having resigned a couple of times before, I know how puckish lobby hacks might choose to misconstrue the departure.