The quality or nature of being harmful or evil.
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Examples for "mischief "
Examples for "mischief "
1 By that time the mischief was done; the illness had set in.
2 To work mischief in the street they settle themselves in the highway.
3 The governor had penetrated the design in time to prevent the mischief .
4 In the spirit of mischief , he followed the impulse of the moment.
5 Time passes; and at last the tiler arrives to mend the mischief .
1 In all their lamentations soundeth vengeance, in all their eulogies is maleficence ; and being judge seemeth to them bliss.
2 Of course society has to make an occasional example and its moral maleficence , like death, loved a shining mark.
3 Even when thou art gentle towards them, they still feel themselves despised by thee; and they repay thy beneficence with secret maleficence .
4 I looked around the cell and saw that my warning had brought to life deep suspicions that even a child could harbor maleficence .
5 Then he shows us how the small-scale maleficence we encounter daily might credibly burgeon into evil as spectacular as can readily be imagined.
1 The girl's indifference could not be real; and if it was not, her good acting only betrayed the depths of her experience and balefulness .
2 5 But their bliss he turned to balefulness :
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