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Mischievousness

noun
1.
An attribute of mischievous children.  Synonyms: badness, naughtiness.
2.
The trait of behaving like an imp.  Synonyms: impishness, puckishness, whimsicality.
3.
Reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others.  Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief, mischief-making, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan.






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"Mischievousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... forks, the sardonic rattle of crockery. After the first insane feeling that somehow he must get ashore and escape from his torment, he hardened himself to it through an immense contempt, equally insane, for the stupidity of the sea, its insensate uproar, its blind and ridiculous and cruel mischievousness. Except for this delirious scorn he was a surface ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells



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