Word Finder - mischievous

definition

Causing mischief; injurious.

definition

Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved.

example

Matthew had a twin brother called Edward, who was always mischievous and badly behaved.

An idea brought a mischievous smile to her lips.

After an awkward silence, she glanced up at him with a mischievous smile.

Her mischievous blue eyes sought her father first and then her grandmother.

If she does not know the answer to a question, she guesses with mischievous assurance.

It was set on fire by mischievous boys, one Election night, if I do not mistake.

No other Magyar king, perhaps, was so mischievous to his country.

To this extent monism is justified; but it becomes mischievous if it prompts us to ignore important differences in facts as they present themselves to our intelligence.

And the same mischievous smile lingered for a long time on her face as if it had been forgotten there.

The idea of the god of love in Roman poetry is due to the influence of Alexandrian poets and artists, in whose hands he degenerated into a mischievous boy with essentially human characteristics.

Petya was a big handsome boy of thirteen, merry, witty, and mischievous, with a voice that was already breaking.

Plutarch (Pericles, II) suggests that Pericles by this means rid the city of the idle and mischievous loafers; but it would appear that the cleruchs were selected by lot, and in any case a wise policy would not deliberately entrust important military duties to recognized wastrels.

Asa Loki was a being of mixed race, half god, half giant, and wholly mischievous and evil.

Alex had a mischievous twinkle in his eyes that toyed with the smile on his lips.

But the Wendish pirates were more mischievous because less amenable to civilization than the Vikings.

She offered one of her warm smiles and approached him, looking up at him with a mischievous twinkle in her gaze.

The match was an unhappy one, owing partly to incompatibility of temper, but still more to the mischievous interference of the jealous queen-mother.

In his eyes, institutions, customs, systems, so long as they had not become actively mischievous, were good because they were old.

Hairsplitting, even when mischievous in intent, leads to distinctions of value.

She enriched herself at the expense of the state, corrupted society, degraded the clergy, and in her later years was universall y detested for her mischievous meddling, inexhaustible greed, and.

The forms of worship were known to be trivial or mischievous, the myths unworthy or immoral.

There you'll find everything from an evil fairy to a mischievous one.

It may have been that the sophists' preference of seeming to reality, of success to truth, had a mischievous effect upon the morality of the time; but it is clear that they had no common theory of ethics, and there is no warrant for the assumption that a sophist, as such, specially interested himself in ethical questions.

It frequents cultivated situations, and is the most mischievous enemy of the villager.

Anything more, every new distinction, is mischievous.

Their mother was sure that left alone, the twins would hatch a mischievous plan.

A conspicuous example of the incalculable evil wrought by lack of integration is well seen in the radical divorce of surgery from medicine, which is one of the most mischievous legacies of the middle ages - one whose mischief is scarcely yet fully recognized, and yet which is so deeply rooted in our institutions, in the United Kingdom at any rate, as to be hard to obliterate.

Still later, he was induced by the machinations of some of the prelates who haunted his court, and by the influence of Theodora, herself much interested in theological questions, and more than suspected of Monophysitism, to raise a needless, mischievous, and protracted controversy.

To this supposed residence at Meudon and to the previous stay at Rome, however, are attached two of the most mischievous items of the legend, though fortunately two of the most easily refutable.

In new countries especially the diversion of industry from its natural development cannot but be mischievous, wrong manufactures and industries being set up at the expense of the whole community, instead of those manufactures and industries which would be most profitable.

Fairies have a repuration for being mischievous.

While the typical image of a fairy is more pixie dust than Goth, the darker versions are associated with the more mischievous brand of fairy that offers teasing and torment.

This system is mischievous, since, if a few consecutive bad seasons occur, the farmer moves to some more favoured spot; while, on the other hand, a succession of good years tends to increase rents.

Depretis, anxious only to avoid a policy of adventure, let slip whatever opportunity may have presented itself, and neglected even to deal energetically with the impotent but mischievous Italian agitation for a rectification of the Italo-Austrian frontier.

Though aware of Bismarcks hostility towards Italy, of the conclusion of the Austro-German alliance of 1879, and of the undisguised ill-will of France, Italy not only made no attempt to crush an agitation as mischievous as it was futile, but granted a state funeral to General Avezzana, president of the Irredentist League.

These events, although far more mischievous in the brain, the functions of which are far-reaching, and the collateral circulation of which is ill-provided, are seen very commonly in other parts.

Within Voltaire there was always a mischievous and ill-behaved child; and he was never more mischievous, more ill-behaved and more childish than in these years.

Tradition centres rather upon the fox (kitsune) and the badger (mujina), which are credited with supernatural powers, the former being worshipped as the messenger of the harvest god, while the latter is regarded as a mischievous rollicker.

This is the first existence of the mischievous principle de prestanda obedientia, subsequently elevated into a statute.

The most mischievous of the ancient abuses, the elective monarchy and the liberum veto, were of course retained.

His father died in 1841, and young Dwight, a mischievous independent boy, got a scanty schooling.

Under Greek influence he was identified with Pan, and just as there was supposed to be a number of Panisci, so the existence of many Fauni was assumed - misshapen and mischievous goblins of the forest, with pointed ears, tails and goat's feet, who loved to torment sleepers with hideous nightmares.

The Danish monarchy since the days of Margaret had continued to be purely elective; and a purely elective monarchy at that stage of the political development of Europe was a mischievous anomaly.

The news supplied was meagre and inappropriate, and it did not take long for mischievous results to accrue, and the official mind was at first disposed to blame the Press for what was wrong in the " publicity " of the moment.

Finally, the practice of rhetoric and eristic, which presently became prominent in sophistical teaching, had, or at any rate seemed to have, a mischievous effect upon conduct; and the charge of seeking, whether in exposition or in debate, not truth but victory - which charge was impressively urged against the sophists by Plato - grew into an accusation of holding and teaching immoral and unsocial doctrines, and in our own day has been the subject of eager controversy.

I can see nothing which will put a stop to this mischievous propaganda but some striking proof of the intention of Her Majesty's government nDt to be ousted from its position in South Africa.

The penal laws against the Catholics, the iniquitous restrictions on Irish trade and industry, the selfish factiousness 'of the parliament, the jobbery and corruption of administration, the absenteeism of the landlords, and all the other too familiar elements of that mischievous and fatal system, were then in full force.

The king, more ponderous and irresolute every day, vacillated MeetIng ol between Necker the liberal on one side and Marie Antoinette, whose feminine pride was opposed to any concessions, with the comte dArtois, a mischievous nobody who could neither choose a side nor stick to one, on the other.

Before we can be said to know all that we might regarding this most interesting of lakes further extensive scientific observations are necessary; but these are extremely difficult owing to the impossibility of maintaining self-registering instruments in a region practically closed to Europeans for nearly half the year by the stifling heat, and inhabited only by Bedouins, who are the worst kind of ignorant, thievish and mischievous savages.

Came back with part of her hair green where a mischievous imp had slept.

Margot herself, a mischievous sprite, is in for a sharp pull-up from Miss Annersley.