Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: mischievous
IPA transcription: [m'ɪstʃəvəs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • 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."