Sentence examples for less mischievous from inspiring English sources

As at other schools, she said, seventh graders seem more focused and less mischievous.

His eyes look warier and less mischievous than they did back then.

Even if Iran merely started to be less mischievous in Iraq (or for that matter in Bahrain, Palestine and Yemen), the Middle East would become a more stable place.

Lloyd Banks, a 50 Cent protégé (and a member of his group, G-Unit), is a more sullen, less mischievous character, but he has clearly learned from his mentor's approach.

In the "younger children" category the Purple Ronnie creator Giles Andreae submits his Pants to be judged by the nation's youth, against the infinitely less mischievous To Mum With Love by Vivian French and Dana Kubick.

The self-described "avant thrift collector" also has a soft spot for less mischievous objects: everything from discarded oil paintings and furniture to candlesticks and salt and pepper shakers.

In that context, "pulling a sickie" is less a mischievous excuse to lounge about than it is a necessary defence against the violent, stressful boredom that is being at work.

There is another way — less lofty, more mischievous, and doubtless more infuriating to some viewers, yet possessed of its own bizarre integrity.

So much so that it's impossible to imagine these Barres de Bois Rond (as Cadere called them) as mischievous, still less subversive in any way.

Mr. Bush worked harder and mellowed a bit, so that while he remained mischievous he was less likely to offend.

Ought usurpation, which is most mischievous, to be rendered less hateful by calumny, which, though injurious, is in a degree less pernicious?