mischievousness

3 definitions found

mischievousness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably
           mischievous to society.                  --South.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious;
          destructive.
          [1913 Webster] -- Mis"chie*vous*ly, adv. --
          Mis"chie*vous*ness, n.
          [1913 Webster]

mischievousness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

mischievousness - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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