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mischievously en · ADV

Etymology

From Middle English mischevously, myschevously, equivalent to mischievous + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a mischievous manner.
   • But the shifting moral tone is perfectly caught in Helen McCrory's polymorphous Phocion, who is mischievously aware of her sexual power and switches from macho snarls when seducing a woman to flirty oeillades when playing with a man. 4 Sep 1999, Michael Billington, The Guardian:
   • Coleridge smiles mischievously 2012, Mark Tungate, Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara, →ISBN, page 118:
   • That's all I claim for Boston,—that it is the thinking centre of the continent, and therefore of the planet. / ―And the grand emporium of modesty,—said the divinity student, a little mischievously. 1859 April, [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.], “The Professor at the Breakfast-table. What He Said, What He Heard, and What He Saw.”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics, volume III, number XVIII, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, […]; London: Trübner and Company, →OCLC, page 495, column 2:

Forms

Translations (7)

pl szelmowsko (in a mischievous manner) · eo petole (in a mischievous manner) · pl psotnie (in a mischievous manner) · fi pahankurisesti (in a mischievous manner) · fr malicieusement (in a mischievous manner) · es malvadamente (in a mischievous manner) · pl figlarnie (in a mischievous manner)