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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. naughtily or annoyingly playful;
- Example: "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"
- Example: "a wicked prank"
[syn: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked]

2. deliberately causing harm or damage;
- Example: "mischievous rumors and falsehoods"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society. --South. [1913 Webster] Syn: Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious; destructive. [1913 Webster] -- Mis"chie*vous*ly, adv. -- Mis"chie*vous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mischievous adj 1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" [syn: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked] 2: deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods"