mischievousness

mischievousness
    n 1: an attribute of mischievous children [syn: {naughtiness},
         {mischievousness}, {badness}]
    2: the trait of behaving like an imp [syn: {impishness},
       {mischievousness}, {puckishness}, {whimsicality}]
    3: reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or
       annoyance in others [syn: {mischief}, {mischief-making},
       {mischievousness}, {deviltry}, {devilry}, {devilment},
       {rascality}, {roguery}, {roguishness}, {shenanigan}]
    

Mischievous \Mis"chie*vous\ (m[i^]s"ch[-e]*v[u^]s), a.
   Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied
   where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a
   mischievous child. "Most mischievous foul sin." --Shak.
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         This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably
         mischievous to society.                  --South.
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   Syn: Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious;
        destructive.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Mis"chie*vous*ly}, adv. --
        {Mis"chie*vous*ness}, n.
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29 Moby Thesaurus words for "mischievousness":
      annoying, belie, color, devilment, devilry, deviltry, diablerie,
      distort, evil, falsify, garble, harm, hurt, impishness, injury,
      mischief, miscolor, misstate, odiousness, offensiveness, pervert,
      roguery, roguishness, sportiveness, teasing, twist, waggery,
      waggishness, warp