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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

annoying, arch, artful, bad, baleful, baneful, bothering, bothersome, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, devilish, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, elfish, elvish, evil, foolish, foxy, frolicsome, full of mischief, harmful, hazardous, high-spirited, hurtful, ill, ill-behaved, impish, injurious, insidious, irking, irksome, knavish, larkish, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, misbehaving, mischief-loving, naughty, noisome, noxious, ominous, paw, perilous, pernicious, playful, poisonous, prankish, pranksome, pranky, precarious, prejudicial, puckish, rascally, risky, roguish, scampish, scapegrace, scatheful, sly, spiteful, sportive, toxic, trickish, tricksy, tricky, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vexatious, vexing, vicious, virulent, waggish, wicked

Dictionary Results for mischievous:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

mischievous
    adj 1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying
           with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" [syn: arch,
           impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated,
           prankish, puckish, wicked]
    2: deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and
       falsehoods"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   [1913 Webster]

         This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably
         mischievous to society.                  --South.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious;
        destructive.
        [1913 Webster] -- Mis"chie*vous*ly, adv. --
        Mis"chie*vous*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]

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