Mischievous

Examples

• I rather liked it, said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Government is then at once irrelevant and mischievous--a mere obstructive nuisance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is in that way that hard-working medical men may come to be almost as mischievous as quacks, said Lydgate, rather thoughtlessly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I quite understand your position, said Holmes, with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Other Greek writers saw the mischievous tendency of Spartan discipline (AriSt. Pol; Thuc. Plato. The Republic.
• Love is no mischievous urchin, who plays with his arrows; no, he is a great and terrible divinity, who comes to every mortal but once in life. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He was lively and full of mischievous humour, as usual. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Beyond that they were disposed to regard education as a mischievous thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So that it is even more mischievous, said my guardian once to me, to remonstrate with the poor dear fellow than to leave him alone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I fear it will be a mischievous one. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There are cases enough here, Watson, said he, looking at me with mischievous eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was a chatterer, a magpie, a maker of mischievous word-jokes, that were sometimes very clever, but which often were not. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• John Bull then must be a very mischievous fellow, said I to myself; or, what is worse, he has no respect for the fine arts. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• With the belief that government is futile and mischievous unless supported by the mass of the people; with the undeniable fact that business has corrupted public officials--I have no complaint. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In one of the battles in this civil war, Ayesha, now a gallant, mischievous old lady, distinguished herself by leading a charge, mounted on a camel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She saw with maternal complacency all the impertinent encroachments and mischievous tricks to which her cousins submitted. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It was mischievous--for it excited hopes that might never be realised. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You have been listening to some mischievous stranger or other—they're always about—and the best thing you can do is, to come out of that. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Well, then, said Holmes, with a mischievous twinkle, I suppose that you have no objection to helping me? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Meg colored, but a mischievous fancy to tease the girls made her reply demurely, You are very kind, but I'm afraid he won't come. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Going out for exercise, answered Jo with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

Typist: Willie