Example sentences for: mischievous

How can you use “mischievous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The threesome of Harry, Ron Weasely, and Hermione Granger (who is likely to be everybody's favorite character) are believably mischievous, competitive, vain, and, for all their intelligence, prone to childish foolishness (e.g. the clever, studious Hermione's stubborn crush on the egotistical charlatan Professor Lockhart in Chamber of Secrets ).

  • One can, even if there is a perceptible difference between the benign OED definition a mischievous or frolicsome youth and the Australian a young urban rough.

  • Tiepolo had a mischievous wit--to which the contributors of the lively catalog are particularly attentive--and it is given free play in his secular subjects, such as the very different joining of divine and human realms in The Rape of Europa (c.

  • She commissioned Correggio to decorate it in 1519 (his first work) with mischievous putti angels and a very pagan view of Chastity as symbolized by the goddess Diana.

  • To this day, for example, we cannot be sure whether it was primitive fear or mischievous humour that inspired a famous Indian woman to introduce herself to white people by her nickname ( Pocahontas , which provocatively suggests `Wanton Valley' or `Wild Place') rather than by her demure real name, Matowaka `Snowflake.


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