mischievously

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adverb

In a mischievous manner.

UncommonScrabble 26

Meanings

adverbmischievously (comparative more mischievously, superlative most mischievously)

comparative more mischievously · superlative most mischievously

  1. In a mischievous manner.

    Coleridge smiles mischievously

    2012, Mark Tungate, Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara, →ISBN, page 118
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    That's all I claim for Boston,—that it is the thinking centre of the continent, and therefore of the planet. / ―And the grand emporium of modesty,—said the divinity student, a little mischievously.

    1859 April, [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.], “The Professor at the Breakfast-table. What He Said, What He Heard, and What He Saw.”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics, volume III, number XVIII, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, […]; London: Trübner and Company, →OCLC, page 495, column 2

    But the shifting moral tone is perfectly caught in Helen McCrory's polymorphous Phocion, who is mischievously aware of her sexual power and switches from macho snarls when seducing a woman to flirty oeillades when playing with a man.

    4 Sep 1999, Michael Billington, The Guardian

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbin a disobedient or naughty way

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishmischevously
  2. Englishmischievously

From Middle English mischevously, myschevously, equivalent to mischievous + -ly.

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Translations

Esperanto petole
  • petolein a mischievous manner
Finnish pahankurisesti
  • pahankurisestiin a mischievous manner
French malicieusement
  • malicieusementin a mischievous manner
Polish psotnie, figlarnie
  • psotniein a mischievous manner
  • figlarniein a mischievous manner
  • szelmowskoin a mischievous manner
Spanish malvadamente
  • malvadamentein a mischievous manner
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