Sentence examples for mischievous thing from inspiring English sources

Guilt, though, is a mischievous thing.

"It was a foolish and mischievous thing to say and I regret saying it," Amis tells Wilson.

The most mischievous thing I ever do to a hotel room is snatch a few unused toiletries, especially the shower caps.

We get lots of calls and all that.' Little things like that were mischievous things that we did.

I loved all the mischievous things the characters got up too (and the not-so-usual school staff).

His Joe Camel is a globe-trotter who likes to play in the Western art world, wears dark sunglasses and does mischievous things, like inserting himself, Zelig-like, into paintings of historical scenes.

Portraits of Linnaeus often convey a quality of puckishness around the eyes and the corners of the mouth, a hint of delight and the urge to say mischievous things.

"One of mischievous things we are going to have to increasingly do is make sure the public do remember where many of the good things of this Government have come from, which is from our songbook and not the Tory songbook.

They cannot play with toy guns; they cannot do the mischievous things that all kids normally do.

However, their efforts may have been perfunctory: according to Dahlgren's report, "...so much has been said in ridicule of torpedoes that very little precautions are deemed necessary, and if resorted to are probably taken with less care than if due weight was attached to the existence of these mischievous things".

Pranks and practical jokes are your bread and butter here, though you can also give the impression of being mischievous just by saying mischievous things.