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ADJECTIVE
  1. naughtily or annoyingly playful
    teasing and worrying with impish laughter
    a wicked prank

How To Use prankish In A Sentence

  • Triangular pink stickers were plastered everywhere, on Levi's, sweat shirts, high-top sneakers -- even, prankishly, on the backs of unsuspecting football stars. Tune In, Come Out
  • She reached in again, head bent, two sheafs of her hair now actu-ally floating on the water, the stream prankishly tugging them in the direction it flowed. Wizard and Glass
  • Like "Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written. The Shield of Silence
  • He credited his prankish side with keeping him young, fond as he was for pulling practical jokes on his co-stars and directors. Paul Newman: A rare breed
  • Loki starts off prankish but useful. The Times Literary Supplement
  • But Sarah and Mellie, in their overalls and dirty baseball jerseys, never had the boys 'heartless prankishness, the little devils dancing in the blacks of their eyes. Excerpt: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
  • She was awake to his guileful arts, and sailed along with him, hailing his phrases, if he shot a good one; prankishly exposing a flexible nature, that took its holiday thus in a grinding world, among maskers, to the horrification of the prim. One of Our Conquerors — Complete
  • I gotta admit, this is kinda funny in a fratboy prankish sort of way. GOP turns tables on Democrats
  • “You have no nurse, Yo-Yo,” he insisted almost prankishly. Closing Time
  • They were the mysterious, the unknown, and who was I, a seven-year-old, to analyse them and know their prankishness? Chapter 4
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