Meanings
comparative more mischievously · superlative most mischievously
- In a mischievous manner.
Coleridge smiles mischievously
2012, Mark Tungate, Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara, →ISBN, page 1182 more examples
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 2But 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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishmischevously
- Englishmischievously
From Middle English mischevously, myschevously, equivalent to mischievous + -ly.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →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
Cite this entry
mischievously. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mischievously
“mischievously.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mischievously. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mischievously,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mischievously.
Source: mischievously on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.