Mischief
Mischief is a vexatious or annoying action, or, conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
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Famous quotes containing the word mischief:
“One wonders that the tithing-men and fathers of the town are not out to see what the trees mean by their high colors and exuberance of spirits, fearing that some mischief is brewing. I do not see what the Puritans did at this season, when the maples blaze out in scarlet. They certainly could not have worshiped in groves then. Perhaps that is what they built meeting-houses and fenced them round with horse-sheds for.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.”
—Abigail Van Buren (b. 1918)