Mischievous \Mis"chie*vous\ (m[i^]s"ch[-e]*v[u^]s), a.
Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied
where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a
mischievous child. "Most mischievous foul sin." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably
mischievous to society. --South.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious;
destructive.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mischievous
adj 1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with
impish laughter" [syn: impish, implike, pixilated,
prankish, puckish]
2: badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a
naughty boy" [syn: naughty]
3: deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and
falsehoods"
WordNet (r) 2.0
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "mischievous":
annoying, arch, artful, bad, baleful, baneful, bothering,
bothersome, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive,
counterproductive, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious,
destructive, detrimental, devilish, disadvantageous,
disserviceable, distressing, elfish, elvish, evil, foolish, foxy,
frolicsome, full of mischief, harmful, hazardous, high-spirited,
hurtful, ill, ill-behaved, impish, injurious, insidious, irking,
irksome, knavish, larkish, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malicious,
malign, malignant, misbehaving, mischief-loving, naughty, noisome,
noxious, ominous, paw, perilous, pernicious, playful, poisonous,
prankish, pranksome, pranky, precarious, prejudicial, puckish,
rascally, risky, roguish, scampish, scapegrace, scatheful, sly,
spiteful, sportive, toxic, trickish, tricksy, tricky, venenate,
veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vexatious, vexing, vicious,
virulent, waggish, wicked
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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