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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mischievous \Mis"chie*vous\ (m[i^]s"ch[-e]*v[u^]s), adjective Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child. ''Most mischievous foul sin.'' --Shak.
This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society. --South.
Syn: Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious; destructive. -- {Mis"chie*vous*ly}, adverb -- {Mis"chie*vous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mischievous
adjective
1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter" [syn: {impish}, {implike}, {pixilated}, {prankish}, {puckish}]
2: badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy" [syn: {naughty}]
3: deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "mischievous": annoying, arch, artful, bad, baleful, baneful, bothering, bothersome, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, devilish, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, elfish, elvish, evil, foolish, foxy, frolicsome, full of mischief, harmful, hazardous, high-spirited, hurtful, ill, ill-behaved, impish, injurious, insidious, irking, irksome, knavish, larkish, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, misbehaving, mischief-loving, naughty, noisome, noxious, ominous, paw, perilous, pernicious, playful, poisonous, prankish, pranksome, pranky, precarious, prejudicial, puckish, rascally, risky, roguish, scampish, scapegrace, scatheful, sly, spiteful, sportive, toxic, trickish, tricksy, tricky, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vexatious, vexing, vicious, virulent, waggish, wicked
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