mischievousness
91diablerie — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. A wicked act or wicked behavior: crime, deviltry, evil, evildoing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, offense, peccancy, sin, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing. See RIGHT. 2. Informal. Annoying yet harmless, usually playful …
92high jinks — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Annoying yet harmless, usually playful acts: devilry, deviltry, diablerie, impishness, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, tomfoolery. Informal: shenanigan (often used in plural).… …
93impishness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Annoying yet harmless, usually playful acts: devilry, deviltry, diablerie, high jinks, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, tomfoolery. Informal: shenanigan (often used in plural).… …
94prankishness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Annoying yet harmless, usually playful acts: devilry, deviltry, diablerie, high jinks, impishness, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, tomfoolery. Informal: shenanigan (often used in plural).… …
95roguishness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Annoying yet harmless, usually playful acts: devilry, deviltry, diablerie, high jinks, impishness, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, rascality, roguery, tomfoolery. Informal: shenanigan (often used in plural).… …
96shenanigan — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Informal. An indirect, usually cunning means of gaining an end: artifice, deception, device, dodge, feint, gimmick, imposture, jig, maneuver, ploy, ruse, sleight, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile. Informal: take… …
97mischievous — mis|chie|vous [ˈmıstʃıvəs] adj 1.) someone who is mischievous likes to have fun, especially by playing tricks on people or doing things to annoy or embarrass them ▪ Their sons are noisy and mischievous. mischievous smile/look etc ▪ Gabby looked… …
98maleficence — (n.) 1590s, from M.Fr. maleficence or directly from L. maleficentia evildoing, mischievousness, injury, from maleficus wicked (see MALEFIC (Cf. malefic)). Now largely displaced by MALFEASANCE (Cf. malfeasance) …
99mischievous — (adj.) early 14c., unfortunate, disastrous, probably from MISCHIEF (Cf. mischief) + OUS (Cf. ous). Sense of playfully malicious or annoying first recorded 1670s. Related: Mischievously; mischievousness …
100connotation — [[t]kɒ̱nəte͟ɪʃ(ə)n[/t]] connotations N COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n The connotations of a particular word or name are the ideas or qualities which it makes you think of. It s just one of those words that s got so many negative connotations …
