How To Use Mischievous In A Sentence

Brunhild, a mischievous, strong-minded goldfish (the voice of Noah Cyrus, Miley's younger sister), is determined to become a little girl when she's rescued from a jar and befriended by Sosuke (the voice of Frankie Jonas, the Jonas Brothers 'kid brother), a plucky, self-reliant 5-year-old. No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'
It's almost too much to take in when some mischievous monkeys try to hitch a ride with us. The Sun
Like jays and crows, their cousins, magpies are mischievous and bold.
Worsted in this war of love Shiva punished the mischievous god of love Madana for aiding that maiden by causing springtime to appear on the scene before its wonted time.
When I turned around, Charlie was still standing at the counter with a mischievous gleam in his dark eyes.

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That he announced this with a mischievous grin can be interpreted as you choose. Times, Sunday Times
Witty and warm with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. The Sun
The mischievous glint has returned to the eye of Freddie Burns. Times, Sunday Times
It just seems as if Mother Earth had become young again, and was tossing her babies up to the summer sky, and the wind played hide-and-seek, or peep-bo, or some other ridiculous game, with them, and made the summer babies as glad and as mischievous as himself. My War Experiences in Two Continents
His skeletal appearance belies a mischievous sense of humour. Times, Sunday Times
Much of the art he discusses is funny, playful and mischievous. Times, Sunday Times
Coates wry, muttered lyrics lend his ditties a mischievous if subdued charm.
Barbara has memories of mischievous boys flicking bits of ink-soaked blotting paper at each other and shoving books down their trousers when they were to be caned.
It would be mischievous to continue to litigate, pending arbitration, matters which depend so much on the facts which form the basis of the arbitration.
In all appearance it is impregnated with nitre, if not with something more mischievous: we know that mundic, or pyrites, very often contains a proportion of arsenic, mixed with sulphur, vitriol, and mercury. Travels through France and Italy
Could it be that behind the sophomoric, mischievous, dismissive, even nihilistic style, Vice is the voice of a twenty-something generation clearing the decks for a new aesthetic?
a mischievous but lovable child
The usual mischievous sparkle had gone from his eyes and he appeared serious, painfully serious.
She's got a mischievous sense of humour and a twinkle in her eye. The Sun
Witty and warm with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. The Sun
In reply to the first part of the objection, we would observe, that among all uncivilized people rites and customs prevail, which are abhorent to the better instructed christian; and with regard to the latter we would ask, what can be expected to result from a system which so degrades and brutifies a class of men, repressing everything that is noble and generous in them, and encouraging the growth of all that is vicious and mischievous in their merely animal nature. God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless.
The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge, because he was the son of his old enemy Sycorax. Types of Children's Literature
That sounds heavy: in fact, this play abounds in mischievous gallows humour. Times, Sunday Times
They seemed to have not malicious but mischievous intent. Times, Sunday Times
Although one or two of the merrier, albeit more mischievous, bantlings are absent, the family circle will, doubtless, be found to be somewhat complete.
This practice of profiling is mischievous and harmful to a tolerant and developing society.
We sit in the autumn sunshine completing the Proust questionnaire which seems to bring his mischievous side out from behind his establishment façade. Times, Sunday Times
He smiled a mischievous grin as we watched it together and I pressed him further. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, the children are naughty too, as one would expect all over the world I guess, yet here I find that children are still children expressing nothing more than an innocent and adventurous mischievousness!
Oberon tells Puck, a mischievous sprite, to fetch him a certain magic flower, the juice of which he will press on the eyes of Titania while she sleeps, so that she may fall in love with what she first sees when she wakes.
She laughed and Eddie chuckled at her fond recollections of her mischievous nephew.
II. iii.67 (297,2) [A mankind witch:] A _mankind_ woman, is yet used in the midland counties, for a woman violent, ferocious, and mischievous. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
She rocks back and forth on her chair like a mischievous child.
Lily was blessed with her mother's flame coloured locks, and mischievous streak.
Shakespeare, in _Midsummer Night’s Dream_, represents him as “a very Shetlander among the gossamer-winged, dainty-limbed fairies, strong enough to knock all their heads together, a rough, knurly-limbed, fawn-faced, shock-pated, mischievous little urchin.” Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
Related Terms & Expressions: la farce = stuffing une farce = a prank, practical joke un farceur, une farceuse = a practical joker farceur, farceuse (adjective) = mischievous tomates farcies = stuffed tomatoes farci de fautes = littered with mistakes se farcir quelqu'un = to put up with someone avoir la tête farcie = to have had enough (of another's shenanigans, of one's own problems) Ex.: J'ai la tête farcie! Farcir - French Word-A-Day
Others were frisky, some downright mischievous, but Cisco was solemnly content.
Giggling, Rebecca flicked her hair over her shoulder, her dark eyes dancing mischievously as she nattered on to Blake.
She was in one of her playful, mischievous moods, and that didn't bear well for him.
It was done in the sense of mischievous good humour. Times, Sunday Times
Before we had been long on the Barrier he developed mischievous habits and became a rope eater and gnawer of other ponies 'fringes, as we called the coloured tassels we hung over their eyes to ward off snow-blindness. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
She doesn't laugh much but does grin mischievously from time to time.
It was done in the sense of mischievous good humour. Times, Sunday Times
That it's mischievous, not malicious. Times, Sunday Times
He put is arm around her waist and drew her close to him, his eyes twinkling mischievously.
Her eyes were glittering mischievously and I knew well enough by now that that look meant she knew something we didn't.
He will walk under a ladder with a mischievous grin. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
Coarse and mischievous - but never too much - his is the good-natured rebellion we all aspire to in our dotage.
He captures the twinkling eyes and mischievous grin brilliantly. The Sun
If not then they too should treat such information as mischievous.
God is Love, I dare say, but what a mischievous devil Love is.
She laughed and Eddie chuckled at her fond recollections of her mischievous nephew.
Her sparkling eyes and mischievous glance from under her bright saffron veil were delightful, and her footwork was sharp and true to the taal.
She's wearing a skintight vinyl dress, chewing gum and grinning mischievously while rubbing her arms vigorously against her sides to make the dress creak and squeak. Times, Sunday Times
He added that fares will be clearly posted on each vehicle in order to prevent confusion and discourage mischievous behavior of drivers.
He's as mischievous as a monkey!
Of course, these youngsters are also playful, naughty and mischievous as well.
It could be funny and a touch mischievous - one self-regarding, supposedly glamorous female TV anchor frostily asked her to desist from addressing her as ‘ma'am’ during a live interview.
He phoned a pal who told him to try to ease the mischievous kitten from under the machine using cooking oil.
The side I enjoyed most was the mischievous side. Times, Sunday Times
He has the right sort of mischievous wit. Times, Sunday Times
Me, I love my nephew to death, but I think he needs to be a bit more mischievous.
He has brown hair and flushed cheeks and a face at once mischievous and ethereal. Times, Sunday Times
This time his mischievous side has taken him down a more unacceptable road. Times, Sunday Times
He was holding the phone with a mischievous twinkle in his eye.
There are two sides to her - the hard-nosed competitor you see on television and the mischievous imp that her friends know.
The encyclopedia tells us that nickel obtained its name because the copper and silver miners in Saxony found that ore containing this substance gave them a great deal of trouble and when smelted produced a brittle, unfamiliar product which they called kupfernickel after old Nick and his mischievous gnomes and when a man named Cronsted isolated nickel itself in 1751, he applied the name of kupfernickel or copper nickel -- since abbreviated to nickel, the word which we use today. Some Responsibilities Of International Business
Herbert D.. Kelleher is wearing a mischievous grin and clutching a Merit Ultima.
Lucy was the youngest of five daughters and was described by her family as a ‘mischievous little imp with a cheeky smile’.
He smiled a mischievous grin as we watched it together and I pressed him further. Times, Sunday Times
The lyrics gloried in sometimes using the original phrases in a hilariously new context, or mischievously punning on them.
Stan seems to take a mischievous delight in turning up specimens under people's noses.
They seemed to have not malicious but mischievous intent. Times, Sunday Times
Maheegun was the most mischievous wolf cub ever.
A council has waged war on mischievous Halloween youngsters by banning children from buying eggs, it emerged today.
An evil gleam came into his eyes and he grinned mischievously at Tara.
U.S. Coast Guard cutters first try to pull over a mischievous ship by making radio contact with its crew.
Her eyes laughed up at him through a dazzle of tears, and prankishly over her curving lips hovered a mischievous dimple. The Palace of Darkened Windows
That does not require "massive" military intervention, as some have mischievously claimed.
This time his mischievous side has taken him down a more unacceptable road. Times, Sunday Times
The decision is mischievous at best and will surely confuse the lower courts.
This politician is charming and likeable but carries the air of a bit of a mischievous rogue.
They poked at her mischievously, while most likely sharing insults in their own language.
Kailash soon appears, threatening Madhu while ingratiating himself with Dimanji and flirting with the family's mischievous maid.
His memoir of growing up among the Urkas is a mischievous, almost mythological, tale of robberies carried out with honor, of revenge exacted with judiciousness. Here Come the Cops—Steppe on It
he behaved badly in school; he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister; behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room.
He just grins like a mischievous schoolboy. Times, Sunday Times
We sit in the autumn sunshine completing the Proust questionnaire which seems to bring his mischievous side out from behind his establishment façade. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, in "Szomorú Napok" will be found some of Jókai's most original characters, notably, the ludicrous, if infinitely mischievous, political crotcheteer, "Numa Pompilius;" the drunken cantor, Michael Kordé, whose grotesque adventure in the dog-kennel is a true _Fantasiestück à la The Day of Wrath
‘I ran away to become a fly boy,’ he said mischievously.
At some point, the paper will do something mischievous that prompts questions to be asked of its management.
In this treatise he shows that the cabalistic works, ‘which are palmed upon ancient authorities, are pseudonymous; that the doctrines themselves are mischievous; and that the followers of this system are inflated with proud notions, pretending to know the nature of God better than any one else, and to possess the nearest and best way of approaching the Deity.’
Some of them are of Maine origin and have never had occasion to escape to other parts of the country -- sannup, let's say, from Abnaki Indian, "loosely used throughout Maine for a boy-child and usually a mischievous one," coodle, ` a small cove or backwater. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
There's something mischievous about the mind of a soon-to-be divorcee. The Sun
Pranks and mischief began to be played out to represent the mischievous behaviour attributed to witches and the fairies.
He is capable of avuncular charm, wheezy laughter and mischievous wit as well as grizzly ferocity and stick-in-the-mud reactionary attitudes and walking-stick-in-the-hand swashbuckling.
He will walk under a ladder with a mischievous grin. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
He was sharp and hard hitting, tender and sincere, funny and mischievous, humble and playful, and just plain entertaining.
Whether he knew anything of this foreign jaunt before yesterday morning is a matter of mischievous speculation. Times, Sunday Times
She's got a mischievous sense of humour and a twinkle in her eye. The Sun
In downtown black, by turns diffident, mischievous, impulsive, even arrogant, she's scrumptious, and the sheep aren't.
Mischievously, we hatched a plan to refill our near empty glasses in the toilets, thus saving ourselves both a wait at the bar and a few quid.
This time his mischievous side has taken him down a more unacceptable road. Times, Sunday Times
he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister
Well, we've definitely heard of mischievous monkeys but Charlie is just cheeky, I think we can safely say.
His mother keeps a careful eye on the youngster to stop him being mischievous.
The mischievous nature of U. S. policy came out patently on the issue of Russian gas supplies to Ukraine.
External controls are clearly a good idea, but if you are in danger of an attack by mischievous children attracted to an interesting dial go for a childproof element on the controls.
And yet, he went on to argue mischievously, are we not the victims of a comparably narcissistic delusion?
With a mischievous smile he responded, "Yes, along with the capellini and tortellini. Dayle Haddon: My Trip to Bolivia, Part 2
Rural England circa 1950 is the setting for the lighter-toned "A Red Herring Without Mustard" Delacorte, 399 pages, $23 , the third mystery by Alan Bradley to be narrated by 11-year-old Flavia de Luce: chemistry prodigy, amateur detective and mischievous bane of her two elder sisters and their distracted, upper-class, philatelic, cash-strapped widower-father. Murder by the Numbers
Stooped but spry, he has the look of a mischievous garden gnome.
Instead of a mischievously lovable old coot, we get this barely Irish, youngish, oafish dude.
They seemed to have not malicious but mischievous intent. Times, Sunday Times
Readers continue to be delighted by Potter's rendition of the child -- mischievous, explorative and just a little bit naughty. Rebecca Serle: Top 10 Classic Children's Books
His skeletal appearance belies a mischievous sense of humour. Times, Sunday Times
His eyes met her blue ones and watched as they shone mischievously.
Every frame bears his signature: the theatricality, the mischievously effective suspense, the adventures in identity and sexuality.
The side I enjoyed most was the mischievous side. Times, Sunday Times
God is Love, I dare say, but what a mischievous devil Love is.
The two boys looked at each other, and a little mischievous grin developed between them.
He had a quick and ready wit and a mischievous sense of humour.
Almost as well-known as the mischievous re-touchings of the surrealist painters, the heady prose description by Walter Pater was considered by WB Yeats to be so original and poetic that he lineated it himself so as to form the opening "poem" of his 1936 anthology, The Oxford Book of Modern Verse: "She is older than the rocks among which she sits;/Like the Vampire/She has been dead many times … Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
In person, the foreboding man in the trench coat on the back cover of The Manhattan Hunt Club is a jovial, mischievous elf with a wicked sense of humor and a love of gossip.
Enjoying the implied mischievousness of Ireland's decision to present a play which, sadly, remains controversial in some quarters, the actress is full of praise for the director.
In it, a mischievous and disobedient kitten, Tom, gets lost in the hidden places of ‘an old, old house, full of cupboards and passages’.
She curtsied and continued forward, intercepting Christopher's mischievous twinkle.
The Dissenting pastor moaned over his stray lambling — if such a little, wily, mischievous monster could be called a lamb at all. The Virginians
He was a great guy, and full of mischievousness.
One of the main differences we'll find it in is the way the familiar angels and devils are caricatured in a innocent-looking style, but that's deceiving; they are scamps, mischievous and even violent characters.
If this theory be right, then Voltaire must naturally be abhorred by all persons who hold it, as a perverse and mischievous hinderer of light. Voltaire
A sly glint came to his eye then, as if he was about to say something mischievous.
With a mischievous smile on her face, she slipped off her sunnies and rested them on top of her hair.
In the extreme case, managers really did cook the books mischievously, thereby boosting the stock price and allowing them to dump high-priced stock.
I turned back to Chase and gave him a little mischievous smile.
You possess quite a mischievous twinkle. The Sun
I still think that mischievous, but not nearly as vile as ascribing messianic qualities to a single man.
Fuelled by his mischievous sense of humour, the debriefs invariably degenerated into howls of laughter. Times, Sunday Times
He is stern at first, then becomes kindly, charming, mischievous.
The UP government's mischievous attempt to steamroller the Places of Worship Bill is a case in point.
An aggrieved Ahtur mischievously demanded: "Sing us one of your shepherd songs, Samson."
He will walk under a ladder with a mischievous grin. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
Billy is determined to catch this mischievous animal that eats the bait from Billy's traps without ever getting caught.
This is a story about the love between a seemingly incompatible couple, a starry-eyed and mischievous high school girl and an all-conquering and powerful public prosecutor.
Recent research suggests that the Ostara myth was potentially invented during a mischievous moment by the Venerable Bede. Kari Henley: What Do a Rabbit, Colored Eggs and Candy Have to Do With Jesus? The History of Easter Revealed
The lunch was copious, and consisted, I remember, of all such dishes as are generally considered mischievous and too good for the schoolboy digestion -- lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs and numberless delicious flavours; besides sauces, kickshaws, creams, and sweetmeats. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
He was masterful and imaginative, but his masterfulness tended to ungenerousness and his imagination to vagary and mischievous exaggeration.
Qur'an 113:3 "From the mischievous evil of Darkness as it becomes intensely dark, and from the mischief of those who practice the evil of malignant witchcraft and blowing on knots, and from the mischievous evil of the envier when he covets. TEXAS FAITH: Should the Pentagon have "disinvited" Franklin Graham? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
He is always doing something mischievous and looks guilty at all times.
The apparent smile on my face, despite my weary state, spoke of signs of contentment, even a return to that mischievous and devilish state of mind.
He goes on to sum up Medea's fate in a sanguine little couplet, made even more mischievously dramatic by caesura and dash: "Else had we seen a parent's hand embrued,/Suffice the horrid thought, in filial blood --" The effect here, whether the poet intends it or not, is firmly to separate the temporal elements of his narrative from the static ones in the picture. Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis
Protect your plants from damage caused by frost, wind, pests (aphids, hornworms, potato beetles, slugs, and snails), diseases (Fusarium wilt, early blight), animals, hungry or mischievous kids, and jealous neighbors.
It may be possible to chip away at recalcitrant citizens by portraying the obstinate allies as mischievous or worse.
You possess quite a mischievous twinkle. The Sun
Briefs, in short, offers a mischievous mix of up-close thrills and rib-tickling titillation. Times, Sunday Times
But viewers will hear some flat lines, some predictable lines and, well, some memorably awful lines, such as "Music is magic and magic music" or "You were so young then, mischievously playing in my puddles" or -- brace yourself -- "See their songs suckle on society like the stained lips of rape children to their wavering mother's breast. On HBO, poetry's 'Brave New Voices' are engaging -- if less than artful
This is less the case, however, when the motive is dissocial, such motives being generally less constant, as having reference to a particular, not a general, object; the religious motive, as being more constant, is more pernicious when it has a mischievous issue. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
If they offered you the Irish manager's job would you take it, I ask mischievously.
She averted her eyes, shifting her gaze to her feet in an attempt to avoid the mischievous curl of his lips.
Home to a wacky wizard, it's a gothic mansion packed to the rafters with mischievous goblins and no-good ghosts.
I p.418 It was renegade Lin Biao who during the 9th Congress of the CPC when he had wrongfully usurped power in his hand, mischievously imposed the term Maoism and said that “Mao Zedong Thought was Marxism-Leninism of the era”. Archive 2006-06-01
I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug.
Then, with a mischievous grin, he glanced first at the closed door and then at her before reaching over, placing a hand on either side of her waist, and hauling her bodily out of the bed.
But he is such a famed raconteur, one is always looking for a mischievous twinkle in the eye. Times, Sunday Times
Rachel glanced over at him and noticed the familiar mischievous twinkle in his eyes had returned.
The mischievous feline gets into trouble as he tries to help a young reindeer home in time to pull Santa's sleigh. The Sun
The playful yet mischievous puppies are now six weeks old and each has started developing a unique personality.
His dark brown eyes had the same mischievous glint.
The landlord, an obsequious little man, with face pregnant with mischievous cunning, was watching with interest, the turns of the game; and assisting his guests, to quaff his vino ordinario, which Sir Henry afterwards found was ordinary enough. A Love Story
I turned to her and saw a bright mischievous glint in her eye.
Mimis were very thin, mischievous spirit beings who lived in rocks and caves.
But his bad fortune so managed it, that there happened to be at the inn at this time four woolcombers of Segovia, and three needlemakers of Cordova, and two neighbours from Seville, all merry fellows, very mischievous and playsome. The Junior Classics — Volume 4
That it's mischievous, not malicious. Times, Sunday Times
No longer was he simply a mischievous scamp running circles around the archbishop of Canterbury and barking like a dog; William was now karate-chopping his mother, kicking the servants, and throwing cringe-making tantrums in public. William and Kate
She rocks back and forth on her chair like a mischievous child.
"Maybe I can give him some sort of disease," she thought mischievously, "so that we can all get on with our lives."
It is Anna who mischievously conjures up the dead.
He faces teacher to accompany an ugly face mischievously, several steps sneaks in the classroom.
Hey, not all kids are irrepressible, mischievous, restless tykes!
Quick and mischievous Halflings squeaked happily at the excitement surrounding them.
And a rusa, a lewdly mischievous pantomime horse galloped the streets to bring virility to the farmers' stallions, bulls, rams and boars.
He pauses, then smiles like a mischievous schoolboy again. Times, Sunday Times
Byron was shoved out of the way rather forcefully by two identical twins with very mischievous grins.
But he is such a famed raconteur, one is always looking for a mischievous twinkle in the eye. Times, Sunday Times
God is Love, I dare say, but what a mischievous devil Love is.
All three have been stars of the hit comedy sketch show, where their mischievous brand of humour has been unleashed on the unsuspecting public.
Related Terms & Expressions: la farce = stuffing une farce = a prank, practical joke un farceur, une farceuse = a practical joker farceur, farceuse (adjective) = mischievous tomates farcies = stuffed tomatoes farci de fautes = littered with mistakes se farcir quelqu'un = to put up with someone avoir la tête farcie = to have had enough (of another's shenanigans, of one's own problems) Ex.: J'ai la tête farcie! French Word-A-Day:
He calmly walked up to her a mischievous smile on his winsome face.
Regarding the latter, I feel compelled to append it with the phrase, ‘but with a certain mischievous, devil may care, and oft attractive demeanour’
He had a wicked glint in his eye, ie suggesting mischievousness.
They seemed to have not malicious but mischievous intent. Times, Sunday Times
mischievous rumors and falsehoods
Griffin grinned at her, his face wreathed in an expression of malevolent mischievousness. The Priest
There was a mischievous glimmer in his eyes.
They seemed to have not malicious but mischievous intent. Times, Sunday Times
The truth simply is that if some remedy be not soon found for the situation created by these people, who are as stupid as they are mischievous, in a few years we shall be obliged either to decuple the gendarmerie, or to allow every citizen to go about armed with a revolver, in order to protect himself against our much too liberally emancipated young scolos! ' France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
He has brown hair and flushed cheeks and a face at once mischievous and ethereal. Times, Sunday Times
For those of you with small children, it will be an added comfort to know a mischievous child will not be scalded by this lower temperature.
She could almost see the mischievous grin plastered on his face.

How To Use Mischievous In A Sentence

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