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- adjective Like a
prankster ; inclined to playpranks .
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Examples
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We shall miss his pranksterish overturning of decorum; the way he caused the blood to heat, the cows to bawl, and the wine to flow.
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Going about as his pranksterish self, Moore attempts to illuminate the evils of a corrupt system, specifically the evils affecting the everyday, all-American family.
Moore illuminates evils of a corrupt system Renee 2009
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Going about as his pranksterish self, Moore attempts to illuminate the evils of a corrupt system, specifically the evils affecting the everyday, all-American family.
Archive 2009-10-01 Renee 2009
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True to Krassner's pranksterish form, he used that description in the title of one of his books, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture.
Boing Boing: February 19, 2006 - February 25, 2006 Archives 2006
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To me, this seems like this is [Law's] pranksterish attempt to undercut what Burning Man has become in his eyes.
'Heart Burn' 2007
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Kudos to Neil Patrick Harris Barney who does such superb job on CBS's Monday night sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" injecting likeability into the otherwise hideous, pranksterish, womanizing, insult-laden, cougar-hunting, suited-up yuppie who constantly sets his friends up and laughs into their face and yet, one can not help but adore him.
Archive 2006-10-01 Justin Van De Kamp 2006
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Kudos to Neil Patrick Harris Barney who does such superb job on CBS's Monday night sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" injecting likeability into the otherwise hideous, pranksterish, womanizing, insult-laden, cougar-hunting, suited-up yuppie who constantly sets his friends up and laughs into their face and yet, one can not help but adore him.
Televisionista Justin Van De Kamp 2006
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There's nothing cute or pranksterish about their agenda.
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It had none of the arrogant retreat to a juvenile mode of pranksterish defiance that "Liberty" had; it turned the Rockwellian nostalgia of "Lazy River Road" inward on itself, almost against itself, in an inquiry into the tenability of idealism and sentimentality in a universe where, as another song has it, "You always hurt the one you love."
The Annotated "Days Between" Robert Hunter 1993
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Izard is among the many local chefs experimenting with whole animal dishes, presenting parts and pieces with pranksterish glee.
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