A mischievous person likes to have fun by playing harmless tricks on people or doing things they are not supposed to do. She rocks back and forth on her chair like a mischievous child + mischievously mis·chie·vous·ly Kathryn winked mischievously
A mischievous act or suggestion is intended to cause trouble. a mischievous campaign by the press to divide the ANC = malicious + mischievously mis·chie·vous·ly That does not require `massive' military intervention, as some have mischievously claimed
badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy" deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods