Usually means: Playful behavior causing minor trouble.
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  1. mischievous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mischievous: Merriam-Webster
  3. mischievous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mischievous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mischievous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mischievous: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mischievous, mischievous: Wordnik
  8. mischievous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mischievous: Wiktionary
  10. mischievous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mischievous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mischievous: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mischievous, mischievous: Dictionary.com
  14. mischievous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mischievous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mischievous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mischievous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mischievous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mischievous: Rhymezone
  20. mischievous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mischievous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. mischievous: FreeDictionary.org
  23. mischievous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mischievous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mischievous: Legal dictionary

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  1. mischievous: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Causing mischief; injurious.
▸ adjective:  Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved, impish.

Similar:
naughty, harmful, puckish, impish, prankish, playful, pixilated, bad, implike, mischivous, more...

Opposite:
well-behaved, obedient, compliant, docile, disciplined

Types:
playful, teasing, trickster, joker, clown, rogue, more...

Phrases:
mischievous prank, mischievous person, mischievous one, mischievous trick, mischievous fairy, more...

Adjectives:
least, useless, argumentative, most, civil, general, whole, real

Colors:
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Similar:
naughty, harmful, puckish, impish, prankish, playful, pixilated, bad, implike, mischivous, more...

Opposite:
well-behaved, obedient, compliant, docile, disciplined

Types:
playful, teasing, trickster, joker, clown, rogue, more...

Phrases:
mischievous prank, mischievous person, mischievous one, mischievous trick, mischievous fairy, mischievous pranks, mischievous child, mischievous look, mischievous smile, mischievous grin, more...

Adjectives:
least, useless, argumentative, most, civil, general, whole, real

Colors:
    lime green,     electric blue,     hot pink,     neon yellow,     fiery red, more...



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