mischievously
advEtymology From Middle English mischevously, myschevously, equivalent to mischievous + -ly.
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In a mischievous manner.
- 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:
- 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:
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- Coleridge smiles mischievously2012, Mark Tungate, Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara, →ISBN, page 118: