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What (who) is mischief - definition
WRONGFUL ACT OR PETTY ANNOYANCE
Malicious mischief; Criminal Mischief; Mischievousness; Mischievous; Mischiefs; Waggishly; Waggishness; Criminal mischief; Waggish
mischief
n.
1.
Evil, ill, harm, injury, damage, hurt, detriment, disadvantage, prejudice.
2.
Trouble, misfortune, ill consequence, evil.
3.
Wrong-doing.
mischief
n.
1) to cause, do, make mischief
2) to be up to, get into mischief
3) malicious mischief
4) out of mischief (to stay out of mischief; to keep children out of mischief)
5) full of mischief
6) up to mischief
mischief
['m?st??f]
¦ noun
1. playful misbehaviour or troublemaking.
2. harm or trouble caused by someone or something.
3. Law a wrong or hardship which it is the object of a statute to remove or for which the common law affords a remedy.
Phrases
do someone a mischief Brit. informal injure someone.
Origin
ME: from OFr. meschief, from meschever 'come to an unfortunate end'.
Wikipedia
Mischief
Mischief or malicious mischief is the name for a criminal offenses that is defined differently in different legal jurisdictions. While the wrongful acts will often involve what is popularly described as vandalism, there can be a legal differentiation between vandalism and mischief. The etymology of the word comes from Old French meschief, which means "misfortune", from meschever, "to end badly".
Examples of use of mischief
1. He used the urinal, presumably out of a sense of mischief, extra to his original purpose, but it‘s the mischief rather than the message which stuck.
2. Add to that the mischief of idiotic new regulations.
3. Iran is certainly a grave, mischief–making menace.
4. Cuba offered 1,100 doctors, surely a gesture of mischief.
5. It‘s not mischief–making, it‘s democracy, she says.