How To Use Prankish In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Loki starts off prankish but useful.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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
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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
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I gotta admit, this is kinda funny in a fratboy prankish sort of way.
GOP turns tables on Democrats
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“You have no nurse, Yo-Yo,” he insisted almost prankishly.
Closing Time
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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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Creative Review has details on the tech behind the prankish miracle.
Boing Boing
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And I think that the prankishness of George's books, this dressing up in a quarterback's togs, playing golf with Sam Snead and all that, tied in somehow with the prankishness, the game-ness, this willingness to be fantastic which related to George's experiences at the Lampoon.
The Last Gentleman
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Too bad that a couple of the shorts are little more than prankish writing exercises.
Times, Sunday Times
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Taking full advantage, he produced an entire cliché-defying book — one that despite a built-in pathos had an overwhelmingly prankish tone.
A Close Read
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The motivation appears to be entirely nasty and prankish.
How crucial is it for food critics to be anonymous?
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One stray click and I'm rickrolled, prankishly diverted to the now-familiar footage of Rick Astley being devoured by a pack of London cannibals.
Wired Top Stories
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Leingruber has already designed several artistic, prankish and borderline illegal browser extensions, including the China Channel, which lets you experience the Internet as if you were in China, and Pirates of the Amazon, which let Amazon browsers easily download for free the products they were thinking of buying.
Claire Gordon: The Anti-Facebook Revolution
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Several of them slapped her (it didn't matter; her bruised and puffy face seemed to have gone numb), and one-it was Misha Alvarez, whose daughter Susan had taught to ride-spat into her eyes and then leaped prankishly away, shaking her hands at the sky and laughing.
Wizard and Glass
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He lost his easy affability, his prankishness, and much of his good humor.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
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Thus perplexed, "criticism approaches the form of fragment, pensée, or parable: it both soars and stutters as it creates the new text that rises up, prankishly, against a prior text that will surely repossess it" (Hartman, 75, 82).
Bringing About the Past
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The gorgeously mounted show by English street artist D*Face is fuel injected with Pop vernacular while kidnapping some Pop masters of the last half century with prankish lo- to mid-brow witticism.
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: D*Face 'Going Nowhere Fast' In Los Angeles
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Is the model a worthy or deserving target of prankish imitation?
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Denied direct expression, the pair's love powers a feud of point-scoring repartee and prankish acts of sabotage.
Times, Sunday Times
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In our family he was the one that was playful, almost unruly, and often prankish.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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That too is a heck of a stretch, while ignoring the nooses as "prankish" or whatever the call was to let it go.
Jena: A Request
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For all its prankish blurring of the lines between author/character and reality/invention, the book finally does present a compelling and complete account of the life of "Michael Martone," an account that really coheres around the other character introduced in that first Contributor's Note, MM's mother, and the city of Fort Wayne.
Experimental Fiction
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This is the sort of "prankishness" one imagines Kazin to have been complaining about and that no longer ” after fifty years of postmodern experimentation (and five Zuckerman books by Philip Roth) ” sticks in our craw.
Justice to J.D. Salinger
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Brendan Gill, writing in The New Yorker, referred to some of his work as "boyish prankishness.
A Maverick Master
