prankish

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Thank you for coming up with a much less creepy/prankish application.

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naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank"

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adjective

naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for prankish.

adjective

naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank"

See also: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, puckish, wicked

Example sentences

Thank you for coming up with a much less creepy/prankish application.

It started to drift increasingly toward the prankish end, and then to the nefarious.

My guess is that the childish prankish appeal will fade as the the need to steal for sustenance fades in the distance from social memory.

Until about the early 1980s, it exclusively referred to benign or prankish tinkering.

Joke [johk] : noun : something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act

"Gremlins were said to engage in such a myriad of bad behavior as sucking the gas out of tanks through hoses, jamming radio frequencies, mucking up landing gear, blowing dust or sand into fuel pipes or sensitive electrical equipment, cutting wires, removing bolts or screws, tinkering with dials, knobs or switches, jostling controls, slashing wings or tires, poking or pinching gunners or pilots, banging incessantly on the fuselage, breaking windows, and a wide variety of other prankish acts.