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Mischief-maker   /mˈɪstʃəf-mˈeɪkər/   Listen
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Mischief-maker  n.  One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mischief-maker" Quotes from Famous Books



... not seem possible that Mrs. Johnnie Dunn, that sensible, practical woman, could be the guilty party. At the very worst, her friends felt, she might have told the names of the people in the village, and some foolish mischief-maker—there were all kinds of folks in the States—had done the rest. But as each valentine was revealed it grew plainer that only some one intimately acquainted with the life of Orchard Glen could have chosen with ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith

... to live for a man who is without shame, a crow hero, a mischief-maker, an insulting, ...
— The Dhammapada • Unknown

... added Dion," "the prospect is equally unpleasing. Philostratus is setting the people crazy. But the hired mischief-maker will soon wish he had been less ready to seize Iras's ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... plainly that he cared a thousand times more for this diminutive bundle of hypocrisy than he ever did for me, and that his absurd favoritism was fast begetting in me a positive dislike for her. I couldn't endure the sight of the sulky little mischief-maker for a week after her complaint of barbarity had brought the look into his face I ...
— At Last • Marion Harland

... soft, browny-gold hair was so long and thick that it would cover her from the crown of her head to her little feet, and her deep brown eyes looked into the faces of her friends as those of a mother look into the face of her child. Loki, the mischief-maker among the giants, often looked at Sib and longed to do her some evil, for he was jealous, thinking that it was not right that she should be praised and loved by everyone; go where he would he could find no one who did not speak ...
— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various


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