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Definition of Prankishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prankishly
Literary usage of Prankishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Latin-American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1920)
"Beside them Old World demons seem prankishly amiable sprites: the Mediaeval
imagination at best (or worst) gives us but a somewhat deranged barnyard, ..."
2. Latin-American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1920)
"Beside them Old World demons seem prankishly amiable sprites: the Mediaeval
imagination at best (or worst) gives us but a somewhat deranged barnyard, ..."
3. The Chautauquan by Chautauqua Institution (1906)
"It was formerly more easily swayed than now, for a mischievous young Goldsmith,
nephew of the poet who was himself so prankishly inclined, ..."
4. Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903, a Biography by Caroline Augusta Lloyd (1912)
"... throw out the line of a theory tentatively, so that he might watch its impression
on various minds, testing its value, even prankishly seeing how near ..."
5. From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England by Katharine Lee Bates (1908)
"It was formerly more easily swayed than now, for a mischievous young Goldsmith,
nephew of the poet who was himself so prankishly inclined, undertook in 1824 ..."
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