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prankishness

  • a word derived from prankish.
    prankish
    adjective
    of the nature of a prank.

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Alberto Barbera, the director of the Venice Film Festival, suggested that the audience’s familiarity with the original — and with von Trier’s prankishness — played a role in its positive reception.

From New York Times Nov. 24, 2022

Staged briskly, but not always fluidly by Rita Giomi, the play's ingenuity, smarts and verbal prankishness are amusing.

From Seattle Times Nov. 22, 2010

But his love of technology and democracy, coupled with an ad man's eye for prankishness, has seen him carve out a unique space in open government circles.

From The Guardian Jul. 28, 2010

Moore uses a similar mixture of prankishness, populism and deadpan naivete on TV Nation.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was amiability itself, and showed genuine distress when Dennis took occasion to scold him for some piece of inconvenient prankishness.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang