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hellraising

a. Engaging in wild, wanton behavior. n. Wild, wanton behavior.

Usage examples of "hellraising".

You're worse than those backstabbing blackguards you hired for your hellraising and left to die.

But they'd sleep uneasily for a while, and might curb their ruthless hellraising in the future.

Evan Smith, “Jim Hightower: A Hellraising Texas Radio Personality Fights to Stay on the Dial.

Women were often torn between mister nice guy, who generally ended up as father of her kids, and the hellraising jerk who represented offbeat romance and adventure.