Definition of "prankishness" []

• Prankish behaviour; mischief. (noun)

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• "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."
• "They were the mysterious, the unknown, and who was I, a seven-year-old, to analyse them and know their prankishness?"
• "He lost his easy affability, his prankishness, and much of his good humor."