Synonyms:
arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked
Meaning: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank"
Usage examples
An absurd, mischievous, irrelevant flirtation.
"That face looks very mischievous," thought Pandora.
Dicky's tone was mildly quizzical, his smile mischievous, but I flushed hotly.
The delight she experienced at the discovery threw her into a mischievous humour.
De Morbihan paused and shifted sideways in his chair, grinning like a mischievous child.
The mischievous twinkle left the girl's eyes, and the languid tone of her voice changed to one a little more like sincerity.
And many a kick did the box--(but it was a mischievous box, as we shall see, and deserved all it got)--many a kick did it receive.
Even the most mischievous of the fairies would not tease him, although he did not belong to their set at all, but was quite a little country bumpkin.
It was always either 'Polly's mother,' or 'Phronsie's mother.' Just like a woman," he added, with a mischievous glance at his wife, "not to be explicit."
"Authors seem to delight in exaggerating the good qualities of the Dog, while they depreciate those of the Cat; the latter, however, is not less useful, and certainly less mischievous, than the former."