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Definition of Mischievousness
1. Noun. An attribute of mischievous children.
Generic synonyms: Disobedience
Specialized synonyms: Prankishness, Rascality, Roguishness
Derivative terms: Naughty
2. Noun. The trait of behaving like an imp.
Generic synonyms: Fun, Playfulness
Derivative terms: Impish, Mischievous, Puckish
3. Noun. Reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others.
Generic synonyms: Misbehavior, Misbehaviour, Misdeed
Specialized synonyms: Blaze, Hell, Monkey Business, Hooliganism, Malicious Mischief, Vandalism
Derivative terms: Devil, Devil, Devil, Mischievous, Mischievous, Roguish
Definition of Mischievousness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being mischievous; the tendency to make mischief. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mischievousness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mischievousness
Literary usage of Mischievousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rationale of judicial evidence, specially applied to English practice, from by Jeremy Bentham (1827)
"Mischievousness of oaths. Inefficacious as is the ceremony of an oath to all good
purposes, it is by no means inefficacious to bad ones. weed—an accidental ..."
2. How to be a Man: a Book for Boys: Containing Useful Hints on the Formation by Harvey Newcomb (1856)
"Mischievousness. THERE are some boys, who carelessly go any where that they can
find amusement, without regard to the character of their company. ..."
3. Faults of Childhood and Youth by Michael Vincent O'Shea (1920)
"... Mischievousness The following type described by a parent will bring the
mischievous trait before us: '' I have a boy in my school who is the only boy in ..."
4. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"formed for the purpose of perpetrating all kinds of rascality and mischievousness,
both on their fellow-students and the neighboring people. ..."
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