0 behaviour, especially a child's, that is slightly bad but is not intended to cause serious harm or damage:
1 behavior, esp. of a child, that is slightly bad or causes trouble but is not intended to harm anyone:
Some of the neighborhood kids like to get into mischief.
We need legislation appropriate to cover a variety of different situations and mischiefs that cause problems in local communities.
All sorts of conceivable mischiefs have been conjured up with regard to this regulation.
The validity of whatever the legislation is applies equally, irrespective of the prevalence or otherwise of the mischiefs that the legislation attempts to prevent.
Seeing that the burden is falling upon the taxpayer it ought to be administered locally, otherwise great mischiefs may arise.
We find ourselves in the 1990s with new, well-defined mischiefs that the law does not address at all or does not address with any certainty.
We have concentrated on the real mischiefs that need to be addressed in terms of international crime.
There are already provisions in place to combat mischiefs of this sort.
A continuance of the present system will be filled with a thousand evils and innumerable mischiefs.
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(尤指兒童的)惡作劇,淘氣,搗蛋, 損害, 傷害…
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(尤指儿童的)恶作剧,淘气,捣蛋, 损害, 伤害…
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travesuras, travesura [feminine, singular]…
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travessuras…
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いたずら…
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muziplik, yaramazlık, afacanlık…
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espièglerie [feminine], bêtise [feminine], méfait…
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entremaliadura…
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