mischievous

mis·chie·vous

M0331300 (mĭs′chə-vəs)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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mis′chie·vous·ly adv.mis′chie·vous·ness n.

mischievous

(ˈmɪstʃɪvəs) adj1. inclined to acts of mischief2. teasing; slightly malicious: a mischievous grin. 3. causing or intended to cause harm: a mischievous plot. ˈmischievously adv ˈmischievousness n

mis•chie•vous

(ˈmɪs tʃə vəs)

adj. 1. maliciously or playfully annoying. 2. causing annoyance, harm, or trouble. 3. roguishly or slyly teasing, as a glance. 4. harmful; injurious. [1300–50; Middle English mischevous < Anglo-French meschevous. See mischief, -ous] mis′chie•vous•ly, adv. mis′chie•vous•ness, n. pron: The pronunciation of mischievous as (mɪsˈtʃi vi əs) is usually considered nonstandard, although a spelling mischievious, which reflects this pronunciation, had some currency between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	mischievous - naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank"impish, implike, pixilated, prankish, puckish, arch, wickedplayful - 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"

mischievous

adjective1. 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

mischievous

adjective1. Causing harm or injury:bad, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious.2. Full of high-spirited fun:frisky, frolicsome, impish, playful, sportive, waggish.

Translations

恶作剧的淘气的

mischief

(ˈmistʃif) noun1. action or behaviour (especially of children) that causes small troubles or annoyance to others. That boy is always up to some mischief. 惡作劇(尤指小孩子的) 捣蛋2. evil, damage or harm. 惡意，傷害 伤害make mischief to cause trouble etc. 興風作浪 挑拨离间ˈmischievous (-vəs) adjectivea mischievous child. 淘氣的 淘气的ˈmischievously adverb 惡作劇地 恶作剧地

mischievous

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