Mischievousness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably
           mischievous to society.                  --South.
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     Syn: Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious;
          destructive.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Mis"chie*vous*ly}, adv. --
          {Mis"chie*vous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mischievousness
       n 1: an attribute of mischievous children [syn: {naughtiness}, {badness}]
       2: the trait of behaving like an imp [syn: {impishness}, {puckishness},
           {whimsicality}]
       3: reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or
          annoyance in others [syn: {mischief}, {mischief-making}, {deviltry},
           {devilry}, {devilment}, {rascality}, {roguery}, {roguishness},
           {shenanigan}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "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