mischievous

mis·chie·vous  (msch-vs)

adj.

1. Causing mischief.

2. Playful in a naughty or teasing way.

3. Troublesome; irritating: a mischievous prank.

4. Causing harm, injury, or damage: mischievous rumors and falsehoods.

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[Middle English mischevous, from mischef, mischief; see mischief.]

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mischie·vous·ly adv.

mischie·vous·ness n.

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mischievous [ˈmɪstʃɪvəs]

adj

1. inclined to acts of mischief

2. teasing; slightly malicious a mischievous grin

3. causing or intended to cause harm a mischievous plot

mischievously  adv

mischievousness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	mischievous - naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" impish, implike, pixilated, prankish, puckish, arch, wicked playful - full of fun and high spirits; "playful children just let loose from school"
	2.	mischievous - deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods" harmful - causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"

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mischievous

adjective

1. naughty, bad, troublesome, wayward, exasperating, playful, rascally, impish, roguish, vexatious, puckish, frolicsome, arch, ludic (literary), sportive, badly behaved She rocks back and forth on her chair like a mischievous child.

2. malicious, damaging, vicious, destructive, harmful, troublesome, malignant, detrimental, hurtful, pernicious, spiteful, deleterious, injurious a mischievous campaign by the press

Translations

mischievous [ˈmɪstʃɪvəs] ADJ

1. (= impish) [person, smile] → pícaro; (= naughty) [child, kitten] → travieso
the mischievous tricks the children used to get up to → las travesuras que los niños solían hacer

2. (= malicious) [person, glance, rumour] → malicioso

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mischievous [ˈmɪstʃɪvəs] adj

(= naughty) [child] → coquin(e)

(= playful) [smile] → espiègle

(= malicious) [campaign, story] → malveillant(e)

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mischievous

adj

(= roguish, playful) expression, smile → schelmisch, verschmitzt, spitzbübisch; a mischievous person → ein Schlawiner m; a mischievous child → ein Schlingel or Racker m; her son is really mischievous → ihr Sohn ist ein Schlingel or hat nur Unfug im Sinn; what mischievous pranks are you up to now? → welche üblen Streiche heckst du jetzt aus?; a mischievous elf → eine Elfe, die Schabernack treibt

(= malicious, troublemaking) rumour, suggestion → bösartig; person → boshaft; strike → schädlich

; (= physically disabling) blow → verletzend

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mischievous [ˈmɪstʃɪvəs] adj (roguish) → malizioso/a; (child) → birichino/a; (harmful) → pieno/a di cattiveria
mischievous rumours (troublemaking) → malignità fpl

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mischievous [ˈmɪstʃɪvəs] adj (roguish) → malizioso/a; (child) → birichino/a; (harmful) → pieno/a di cattiveria
mischievous rumours (troublemaking) → malignità fpl

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mischievous → مؤذ nezbedný drillesyg schelmisch σκανταλιάρης travieso kujeileva espiègle zločest dispettoso いたずら好きな 짓궂은 schalks rampete szkodliwy malicioso озорной busig เกเร yaramaz tinh quái 恶作剧的