Mischief










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Mischief \Mis"chief\ (m[i^]s"ch[i^]f), n. [OE. meschef bad
result, OF. meschief; pref. mes- (L. minus less) + chief end,
head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and Chief.]
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1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or
vexation caused by human agency or by some living being,
intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial
evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport. --Chaucer.
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Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs. --Ps. lii. 2.
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The practice whereof shall, I hope, secure me from
many mischiefs. --Fuller.
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2. Cause of trouble or vexation; trouble. --Milton.
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The mischief was, these allies would never allow
that the common enemy was subdued. --Swift.
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To be in mischief, to be doing harm or causing annoyance.


To make mischief, to do mischief, especially by exciting
quarrels.

To play the mischief, to cause great harm; to throw into
confusion. [Colloq.]
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Syn: Damage; harm; hurt; injury; detriment; evil; ill.

Usage: Mischief, Damage, Harm. Damage is an injury
which diminishes the value of a thing; harm is an
injury which causes trouble or inconvenience; mischief
is an injury which disturbs the order and consistency
of things. We often suffer damage or harm from
accident, but mischief always springs from perversity
or folly.
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Mischief \Mis"chief\, v. t.
To do harm to. [Obs.] --Milton.
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mischief
n 1: reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or
annoyance in others [syn: mischief, mischief-making,
mischievousness, deviltry, devilry, devilment,
rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan]

2: the quality or nature of being harmful or evil [syn:
maleficence, mischief, balefulness] [ant:
beneficence]
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mischief [mistʃif]
Schaden; Unfug; Unheil

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mischief

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bajcsináló
bajkeverô
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gonoszember
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gonoszság
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méregkeverés
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rosszindulat
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mischief

Schaden m
mischief

Unfug m
mischief

Unfug m; Unheil n
mischief

Unheil n
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167 Moby Thesaurus words for "mischief":
Discordia, Eris, abomination, atrocity, bad, bad boy, badness,
bane, bankruptcy, befoulment, blight, booger, breakage, breakdown,
buffoon, bugger, clash, clashing, collapse, conflict, contention,
corruption, crack-up, crippling, crying evil, cutup, damage,
defilement, despoliation, destruction, detriment, devil,
devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, difference,
difficulty, dilapidation, disablement, disaccord, disadvantage,
disaffinity, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony,
disrepair, disruption, dissension, dissent, division, drawback,
elf, elfishness, encroachment, enfant terrible, enmity, evil,
foolishness, friction, funmaker, grievance, handicap, hardship,
harm, havoc, high spirits, hobbling, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hurt,
hurting, ill, imp, impairment, impishness, incapacitation,
incompatibility, incompatibleness, infection, infringement,
inharmoniousness, inharmony, injury, inroad, jangle, jar, joker,
jokester, knave, liability, limb, little devil, little monkey,
little rascal, loss, loss of ground, maiming, mayhem, minx,
misbehavior, mischief-maker, mischievousness, misfortune,
monkey business, monkeyshines, mutilation, naughtiness,
noncooperation, open conflict, outrage, pixie, playfulness, poison,
pollution, practical joker, prankishness, pranksomeness, prankster,
prejudice, puck, puckishness, rapscallion, rascal, rascality,
rogue, roguery, roguishness, rowdy, rub, ruffian, ruin, ruination,
ruinousness, sabotage, scalawag, scamp, scampishness, scapegrace,
scathe, shenanigans, sickening, spoiling, sportiveness,
step backward, strained relations, strife, tension, the worst,
toxin, trouble, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, variance, venom,
vexation, villain, wag, waggery, waggishness, weakening, woe,
wrong, youthful spirits



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