(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.
Urchin
Definition:
(n.) A hedgehog.
(n.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
(n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
(n.) A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.
(n.) One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
(a.) Rough; pricking; piercing.
Example Sentences:
(1) CyIIIa.CAT) expression simultaneously in embryos bearing excess competitor regulatory DNA, we developed, and here describe, a new procedure for generating transgenic sea urchin embryos in which all of the cells in many embryos, and most in others, bear the exogenous DNA.
(2) An oligonucleosome 12-mer was reconstituted in the absence of linker histones, onto a DNA template consisting of 12 tandemly arranged 208-base pair fragments of the 5 S rRNA gene from the sea urchin Ly-techinus variegatus (Simpson, R. T., Thoma, F. S., and Burbaker, J. M. (1985) Cell 42, 799-808).
(3) 1c for structure), for continuous measurement of [Ca2+]i from fertilization through the first cleavage of individual eggs of the sea urchin Lytechinus pictus.
(4) The agglutination of the sea urchin spermatozoa was inhibited specifically by ceratain carbohydrates.
(5) The levels of different classes of mitochondrially encoded transcripts are developmentally regulated in sea urchin embryos, as a result of selection between mutually exclusive synthetic pathways.
(6) Antimicrobial activity of polyhydroxynaphthoquinones from sea urchins was studied.
(7) A special type of beta-turn structural motif has been proposed for this sequence, and it has been shown that a segment of the sea urchin sperm H1 N terminus, which has six repeats of the motif (S6 peptide), binds to DNA and competes with the DNA binding drug Hoechst 33258.
(8) The fertilization reaction of echinoderm eggs (Lytechinus pictus, a sea urchin, and Dendraster excentricus, a sand dollar) was followed with intracellular electrodes.
(9) Sperm-specific histone variants in the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus are replaced early after fertilization with a specific embryonic set of histone variants.
(10) Spermidine is rapidly taken up and becomes bound to protein during the very early hours of sea urchin embryogenesis.
(11) The tandemly repeated genes were expressed at a higher rate in blastula than in gastrula stage relative to the single-copy gene, when the two genes were injected into sea urchin zygotes.
(12) The purine inhibits the detachment of the vitelline layer from the sea-urchin egg plasma membrane after fertilization and this effect leads to polyspermy.
(13) Microtubule assembly is required for the formation of the male and female pronuclei during mouse, but not sea urchin, fertilization.
(14) In situ hybridization of sea urchin (Psammechinus miliaris, Lytechinus pictus and Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) histone messenger RNA has been used to map complementary sequences on polytene chromosomes from Drosophila melanogaster.
(15) We have examined the relationship between the newly synthesized mRNA that enters polysomes in sea urchin embryos and the messengerlike RNA that enters the pool of ribosome-free ribonucleoprotein particles (free RNPs or informosomes).
(16) Individual oocytes of the sea urchin with diameters which ranged from 86 to 102% that of the average diameter for mature eggs from the same female were examined.
(17) Puncture wounds were cuased in 9 patients by sea urchin spines and 1 patient by a date palm thorn.
(18) A method based on the degradation by enzymes and nitrous acid of isotopically labelled glycosaminoglycans has been employed to study the synthesis of these compounds in normal, animalized and vegetalized sea urchin embryos.
(19) From these results, we conclude that USE 1 and perhaps USE 2 in the H2A modulator are upstream transcriptional elements that are recognized by trans-acting factors common to Xenopus and sea urchin.
(20) We have used an in vitro assay to characterize some of the motile properties of sea urchin egg kinesin.