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  • adverb In a prankish way.

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Examples

  • One stray click and I'm rickrolled, prankishly diverted to the now-familiar footage of Rick Astley being devoured by a pack of London cannibals.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • Triangular pink stickers were plastered everywhere, on Levi's, sweat shirts, high-top sneakers -- even, prankishly, on the backs of unsuspecting football stars.

    Tune In, Come Out 2008

  • One stray click and I'm rickrolled, prankishly diverted to the now-familiar footage of Rick Astley being devoured by a pack of London cannibals.

    Scott Brown Leads a Guided Tour of the Most Awesome Depression Ever 2008

  • One stray click and I'm rickrolled, prankishly diverted to the now-familiar footage of Rick Astley being devoured by a pack of London cannibals.

    Scott Brown Leads a Guided Tour of the Most Awesome Depression Ever 2008

  • Thus perplexed, "criticism approaches the form of fragment, pensée, or parable: it both soars and stutters as it creates the new text that rises up, prankishly, against a prior text that will surely repossess it" (Hartman, 75, 82).

    Bringing About the Past 1997

  • She reached in again, head bent, two sheafs of her hair now actu-ally floating on the water, the stream prankishly tugging them in the direction it flowed.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • Several of them slapped her (it didn't matter; her bruised and puffy face seemed to have gone numb), and one-it was Misha Alvarez, whose daughter Susan had taught to ride-spat into her eyes and then leaped prankishly away, shaking her hands at the sky and laughing.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • “You have no nurse, Yo-Yo,” he insisted almost prankishly.

    Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994

  • Her eyes laughed up at him through a dazzle of tears, and prankishly over her curving lips hovered a mischievous dimple.

    The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley

  • She was awake to his guileful arts, and sailed along with him, hailing his phrases, if he shot a good one; prankishly exposing a flexible nature, that took its holiday thus in a grinding world, among maskers, to the horrification of the prim.

    One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

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