Adjective : a prankish plan. ,a prankish child; a prankish kitten. From Dictionary.com.
This is the sort of "prankishness" one imagines Kazin to have been complaining about and that no longer ” after fifty years of postmodern experimentation (and five Zuckerman books by Philip Roth) ” sticks in our craw. From Wordnik.com. [Justice to J.D. Salinger] Reference
He lost his easy affability, his prankishness, and much of his good humor. From Wordnik.com. [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference
Brendan Gill, writing in The New Yorker, referred to some of his work as "boyish prankishness.". From Wordnik.com. [A Maverick Master] Reference
And I think that the prankishness of George's books, this dressing up in a quarterback's togs, playing golf with Sam Snead and all that, tied in somehow with the prankishness, the game-ness, this willingness to be fantastic which related to George's experiences at the Lampoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Gentleman] Reference
I wonder where House and his prankishness will venture?. From Wordnik.com. [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference
She was only on the second floor, and captivity revived all her girlish prankishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference
They were the mysterious, the unknown, and who was I, a seven-year-old, to analyse them and know their prankishness?. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
Like "Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written. From Wordnik.com. [Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe] Reference
That the harum-scarum boy had given place to this middle-aged, successful business man, with the deep voice and big whiskers, was hard for Alec to realize, for in all Miss Eunice's reminiscences he had kept the perennial prankishness of youth. From Wordnik.com. [Flip's "Islands of Providence"] Reference
Why these curves should be so charming it would be hard to say; they have an exquisite prankishness of variety, the place where the upward or downward scrolls curl off from the main wave is delicately unexpected every time, and -- especially in gold embroideries -- is sensitively fit for the material, catching and losing the light, while the lengths of waving line are such as the long gold threads take by nature. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
I should have had no story to tell, I should have been a man continuously happy, affluent and at ease, early married and passing from one high office to the next higher in an uninterrupted progress of success, had it not entered the head of my capricious crony to pay me an unexpected and unannounced visit, had he not arrived precisely at the time at which he came, had he not encountered just the persons he met just where he did meet them, had not his prankishness hatched in him the vagary which led him to give quizzical replies to their questions; had I not, carried away by my elation at my prosperity and fine prospects, been a trifle too indulgent to my tenantry. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
They had laughed at his prankishness. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
Appreciation will be "largely determined by one's taste for Madison Avenue back-slapping, broiled steaks, alcoholic journalists, and self-amused 'You had to be there' celebrity prankishness, all lovingly recalled by a litany of gargle-voiced sportswriters and. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
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