The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mischievous \Mis"chie*vous\ (m[i^]s"ch[-e]*v[u^]s), a.
Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied
where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a
mischievous child. ``Most mischievous foul sin.''
--Shak.
This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably
mischievous to society.
--South.
Syn: Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious; destructive. [1913 Webster] -- Mis"chie*vous*ly, adv. -- Mis"chie*vous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a mischievous manner.
WordNet
Usage examples of "mischievously".
Grinning mischievously, Hawk backed away and uncrumpled the parchment.
The constant expulsions of the Jesuits from Asuncion, the turmoils in the State, and the fact that every now and then the Indians had to take arms to defend their territory, acted most mischievously on the reductions, both in Paraguay and in those between the Parana and Uruguay.
Shortly after Jerkline Jo left the beauty parlor of Lucy Dalles, mischievously bent on giving Ragtown a harmless little shock, Al Drummond sidled up to the old prospector at the bar in the Palace Dance Hall.
Teres smiled mischievously and began to hum disjointedly a scurrilous ballad popular among the troops, freely translating bits of verse to suit her spirit.
Maybe she had been a housemaid behaving mischievously by waving to a man she recognised as a sailor and had been dragged back by the housekeeper or even by Moses.
When Amant, the knight, saw him do that villainous deed, and his squires, they said it was foul done, and mischievously: Wherefore we will do thee no more service, and wit ye well, we will appeach thee of treason afore Arthur.
Something in the way she plumped her cute little bottom down on the bar stool, and crossed her legs, and propped one elbow on the bar, and her chin on her hand, and looked him mischievously in the eye&mdash.
But Jackie was mischievously complicating things by leaning on Art's arm, either to tease him or to compete with Tanna.
The room was lit and I could see Ferrill grinning mischievously as he gave my foot one last brush.
Think of how many more people would come to the Snake Hunts,” he added, grinning mischievously.
Clissum mischievously sprinkled the back of Gaulph Rabi's gown with a pervasively odorous sachet, which caused the austere ecclesiarch great perplexity to the end of the evening.
Mischievously, she allowed him to see her reaching for supplies from his home world light-years away.
When Thailand mischievously registered traditional medicines as that nation’.
Kincaid, grinning mischievously from his couch, waggled his finger at her.