prankish

How To Use prankish In A Sentence

• 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
• Brendan Gill, writing in The New Yorker, referred to some of his work as "boyish prankishness. A Maverick Master
• This is the sort of "prankishness" one imagines Kazin to have been complaining about and that no longer ” after fifty years of postmodern experimentation (and five Zuckerman books by Philip Roth) ” sticks in our craw. Justice to J.D. Salinger
• For all its prankish blurring of the lines between author/character and reality/invention, the book finally does present a compelling and complete account of the life of "Michael Martone," an account that really coheres around the other character introduced in that first Contributor's Note, MM's mother, and the city of Fort Wayne. Experimental Fiction
• That too is a heck of a stretch, while ignoring the nooses as "prankish" or whatever the call was to let it go. Jena: A Request
• 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
• In our family he was the one that was playful, almost unruly, and often prankish. Times, Sunday Times
• Denied direct expression, the pair's love powers a feud of point-scoring repartee and prankish acts of sabotage. Times, Sunday Times
• Is the model a worthy or deserving target of prankish imitation?
• The gorgeously mounted show by English street artist D*Face is fuel injected with Pop vernacular while kidnapping some Pop masters of the last half century with prankish lo- to mid-brow witticism. Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: D*Face 'Going Nowhere Fast' In Los Angeles