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Mischievous in a sentence
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Mischievous meaning
- Causing mischief; injurious.
- Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved, impish, naughty, disobedient; showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way and liking to have fun by playing harmless tricks on people or doing things they are not supposed to do.
Synonyms of Mischievous
Using Mischievous
- The main meaning on this page is: Causing mischief; injurious. | Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved, impish, naughty, disobedient; showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way and liking to have fun by playing harmless tricks on people or doing things they are not supposed to do.
- Useful related words include: impish, bad, naughty, playful.
- In the example corpus, mischievous often appears in combinations such as: and mischievous, mischievous and, the mischievous.
Context around Mischievous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mischievous
- In this selection, "mischievous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, provides, similar, manipulative, wolf, devil and film stand out and add context to how "mischievous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also manipulative mischievous arrogant and and and his mischievous majin techniques. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mischievous" sits close to words such as abstraction, accomplice and ang, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mischievous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Im gonna miss that mischievous smile. (6 words)
However, initially unbeknownst to the women, he’s also manipulative, mischievous, arrogant and downright devilish. (15 words)
It added that the Youth Council was a strange non-existent mischievous contrivance for narrow personal interests. (17 words)
It's also possible that the answer could somehow involve Q's seemingly forgotten son episode "Q2," Q Jr. (Keegan de Lancie) was as equally mischievous as his father and could be connected to this new Q in some way that isn't yet apparent. (45 words)
J.M. Barrie’s classic childhood tale of the mischievous boy who defies age and, thanks to his ability to fly, gravity, had already entertained audiences as a play and, in 1911, a novel titled Peter and Wendy. (38 words)
Millions of Igbos, either gullible or mischievous, believe that Nnamdi Kanu is a hero and are actually doing everything to coronate him as such, but few of us, will continue to, when we can, correct that terrible mistake. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Ahead of kick-off against Huddersfield Giants yesterday, the mischievous wolf decided to top up his tan in the middle of The Halliwell Jones Stadium field and even the arrival of the players could not shift him.
A little further wordplay reveals another crucial detail: ” is an anagram of “,” so they actually serve as something of a body double for the mischievous devil.
Although she’s mischievous and acts tough, Pitch-Dark Hook the Great is just a little girl who actually wishes to protect her family and friends.
As two of The Montclarion’s most heinous, menacing and mischievous film majors, this wasn’t an easy decision.
By being playful, silly and sometimes even mischievous, mascots create a sense of joy and excitement that enhances the overall entertainment value of an event.
Clara could also use The Moles Welcome You, as it provides Mischievous stacks after Basic attacks, Skills, and Ultimates, with each stack adding 24% ATK.
Despite her unassuming and innocent appearance, Takagi is a mischievous and highly intelligent girl who always manages to get the better of her best friend, Nishikata.
Eddie's character in The Munsters, although an only child, shared similarities with the mischievous yet earnest dynamic of the brothers in Leave It To Beaver.
Eddy comes up with another mischievous plot to continue his scheming run and asks Ed to forge some sticky notes.
Feels like pretty much all of Norse Mythology happened due to Loki doing a (mischievous) thing because he was bored.
For the writer to suggest we are being anything except supportive and respectful of Kaska, can most politely be described as mischievous.
Good Buu might often have a childlike demeanor and disinterest in combat, but he’s still a true force to be reckoned with – both in terms of raw strength and his mischievous Majin techniques.
He said there were similar mischievous speculations around Ikpeazu in the run up to the 2019 general elections because of the governor’s accommodation of different political views and orientations.
However, all it takes is a group of mischievous children to discover that dragons still very much exist, and the kids now know where they've been tucked away.
However, initially unbeknownst to the women, he’s also manipulative, mischievous, arrogant and downright devilish.
Im gonna miss that mischievous smile.
It added that the Youth Council was a strange non-existent mischievous contrivance for narrow personal interests.
It's also possible that the answer could somehow involve Q's seemingly forgotten son episode "Q2," Q Jr. (Keegan de Lancie) was as equally mischievous as his father and could be connected to this new Q in some way that isn't yet apparent.
J.M. Barrie’s classic childhood tale of the mischievous boy who defies age and, thanks to his ability to fly, gravity, had already entertained audiences as a play and, in 1911, a novel titled Peter and Wendy.
Millions of Igbos, either gullible or mischievous, believe that Nnamdi Kanu is a hero and are actually doing everything to coronate him as such, but few of us, will continue to, when we can, correct that terrible mistake.
Common combinations with mischievous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and mischievous 32×
- mischievous and 29×
- the mischievous 24×
- as mischievous 9×
- of mischievous 7×
- mischievous grin 7×
- is mischievous 6×
- his mischievous 6×
- be mischievous 6×
- very mischievous 4×