The word "mischief" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe mischievous behavior, or to refer to a troublemaker. Example sentence: The children were getting into mischief while their parents were away.
Spending time with my mates on the estate meant getting up to mischief, so there was an appeal in hanging out with Nick and Richard, who'd introduced us.
My futile attempts were punctuated by the screams of the patient in the next bed and by the mischief of the lady opposite, who kept coming over to steal my equipment.
He made up sentences that helped explain to him, and therefore others in his dire, inhibiting situation, the bottled-up the pain he felt at being underestimated, pinned down, ignored, driven into the thieving, violence and ganged-up mischief that confirms all mercilessly applied stereotypes.
Stevens clung on until July 1999, aged 63, and entertained himself thereafter as rich peers do, playing golf - a lifelong passion - and making political mischief.
But there is clearly method behind his mischief.
They would be up to all sorts of mischief, and keep me amused, they would take my mind off what was happening … Imagine by John Lennon would send me off.
The commentators - being mischief-makers - will not say just that he wants to be PM; they will add that he should be.
One of the main hazards of becoming prime minister is the problems that arise when mischief-making newspapers cry, and maliciously inclined colleagues whisper: "Look behind you!" Alan Johnson would, I am sure, take on the job with the absolute intention of being a loyal deputy.
This is why the murder of free-thinkers, anarchists, subversives, mischief-makers – the staff of Charlie Hebdo – has hit everybody so hard.
Meanwhile, mischief-making backbenchers, including Simon Danczuk, were given ample airtime throughout Sunday with their calls for Miliband to step down.
And while officials in Tehran have linked the seizure of the container ship to a commercial dispute, many see it as mischief-making.
