Example sentences for: mischievous

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

  • But Updike, even in this book, is a great writer, the greatest we have, in his particular areas of strength--in the control of visual details, in his rhythmic intensity, in the colors and shapes that come pouring syncopatedly from his mischievous pen.

  • 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 ).

  • Vishnu, a four-armed god with mace, conch, discus, and lotus, has many incarnations, of which the most famous is Krishna, who appears as conquering hero, flute-playing lover, or mischievous baby.

  • Elves or leprechauns that Anthony John Campos refers to as little people, pichilingis are goblins who perform mischievous pranks.

  • 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.


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