Example sentences for: mischievous

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

  • It may be argued that such personal semantics are more than mischievous.

  • Amid all the hoopla, however, Chatterbox hasn't seen any attention lavished on Talk's bold and imaginative Web site (which is not to be confused with the highly entertaining Talk parody site posted prior to publication by a mischievous employee at Brill's Content ; see " Too Funny for Brill's Content ").

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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