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mischievousadjective tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulnessthe children had been so mischievous that we had to pay the babysitter extra and then clean up the mess arch, devilish, elvish, espiègle, impish, knavish, leprechaunish, pixie(also pixy), pixieish, prankish, puckish, rascally, roguish, scampish, sly, tricksy, waggish, wicked antic, coltish, coy, frisky, frolicsome, kittenish, playful, sportful, sportivegay, happy, lighthearted, whimsicalenergetic, lively, spirited, sprightlyartful, crafty, cunning, trickish, tricky, wilymisbehaving, naughty, troublemakingpestering, riling, teasing grave, grim, sedate, sober, solemn, staid, stern engaging in or marked by childish misbehaviorpunished for their mischievous tricks on the neighbors bad, contrary, errant, froward, misbehaving, naughty defiant, disrespectful, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impolite, improper, impudent, indecorous, insolent, rude, uncouth, unmannerlydisobedient, headstrong, intractable, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, transgressing, unruly, untoward, willful(or wilful)balky, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, wayward, wildarch, elfish, impish, knavish, monkeying, monkeyish, ornery, pixieish, prankish, rascally, roguish, waggishdissolute, perverse, wrongheadeddisorderly, rowdy, ruffianlycorrupt, evil, wickedinsurgent, mutinous, rebelliousdisobliging, inconsiderate, selfish, thoughtless, unkind, unkindlybabyish, childish, immature, infantile, jejune, juvenile, kiddish, puerile behaved, behaving, nice, orderly acquiescent, compliant, complying, dutiful, obedient, submissiveclean, correct, decent, decorous, moral, proper, respectableconsiderate, courteous, kindly, mannerly, polite, thoughtfulangelic(or angelical), cherubic, divine, heavenlyamenable, docile, governable, tractableamiable, complaisant, good-natured, obliging, pleasantdiscreet, modestadult, grown-up, mature causing or capable of causing harmmischievous gossip that ruined a good teacher's reputation adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked hostile, inimical, unfriendlycontagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomousinsidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threateninghazardous, imperiling(or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsoundnasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesomedestructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe advantageous, beneficial, usefulfavorable, good, propitiouscurative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesomesecure, soundbenignantnoncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous in the 14th century |