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mischief maker | mischief-maker | mischief-making | mischiefable | mischiefful | mischievous | mischievously | mischievousness | mischna | mischnic | mischoose

mischievous

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Adjective
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mis=chie=vous

CIDE DICTIONARY

mischievousa. 
     Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
    "This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society."  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious; destructive.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mischievous, adj.
1 (of a person) disposed to mischief.
2 (of conduct) playfully malicious.
3 (of a thing) having harmful effects.

Derivative
mischievously adv. mischievousness n.
Etymology
ME f. AF meschevous f. OF meschever: see MISCHIEF

THESAURUS

mischievous

annoying, arch, artful, bad, baleful, baneful, bothering, bothersome, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, devilish, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, elfish, elvish, evil, foolish, foxy, frolicsome, full of mischief, harmful, hazardous, high-spirited, hurtful, ill, ill-behaved, impish, injurious, insidious, irking, irksome, knavish, larkish, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, misbehaving, mischief-loving, naughty, noisome, noxious, ominous, paw, perilous, pernicious, playful, poisonous, prankish, pranksome, pranky, precarious, prejudicial, puckish, rascally, risky, roguish, scampish, scapegrace, scatheful, sly, spiteful, sportive, toxic, trickish, tricksy, tricky, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vexatious, vexing, vicious, virulent, waggish, wicked

ROGET THESAURUS

mischievous

Badness

N badness, hurtfulness, virulence, evil doer, bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind, hoodoo, Jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side, malignity, malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness, peccancy, abomination, painfulness, pestilence, guilt, depravity, hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful, injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial, disserviceable, disadvantageous, wide-wasting, unlucky, sinister, obnoxious, untoward, disastrous, oppressive, burdensome, onerous, malign, corrupting &c (corrupt), virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive, inauspicious, bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful, horrid, horrible, dire, rank, peccant, foul, fulsome, rotten, rotten at the core, vile, base, villainous, mean, injured, deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent, below par, illcontrived, ill-conditioned, wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, pitiable, woeful, evil, wrong, depraved, shocking, reprehensible, hateful, hateful as a toad, abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded, damned, damnable, infernal, diabolic, unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent, irremediable, badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches, bad is the best: the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged.


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