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mischievousness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mischievousness has 3 senses
- mischievousness(n = noun.attribute) badness, naughtiness - an attribute of mischievous children; Array is a kind of disobedience
- mischievousness(n = noun.attribute) impishness, puckishness, whimsicality - the trait of behaving like an imp; Array is a kind of fun, playfulness
- mischievousness(n = noun.act) devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief, mischief-making, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan - reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others; Array is a kind of misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed
has particulars: prankishness, rascality, roguishness
Derived form adjective mischievous1
has particulars: blaze, hell, monkey business, hooliganism, malicious mischief, vandalism
Derived form adjective mischievous2
THESAURUS
mischievousness
annoying, belie, color, devilment, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, distort, evil, falsify, garble, harm, hurt, impishness, injury, mischief, miscolor, misstate, odiousness, offensiveness, pervert, roguery, roguishness, sportiveness, teasing, twist, waggery, waggishness, warp
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