prankish in a sentence

Examples

1. There is a mischievous, prankish side to Gambon that has not always confined itself to the text.
2. But instead of having a prankish adolescent joie de vivre, these bits have a meaner Swiftian edge.
3. Its leading characters include prankish boys and a principled principal, a conflicted father and an indignant faculty.
4. At Harvard, the prankish behavior _ and much of Kaczynski's personality _ seemed to disappear.
5. In her office at the tribunal, a few days later, the prosecutor is in a prankish mood.
6. Now Phillips had a somewhat prankish personality, so he set out to achieve the navigation trick of a lifetime.
7. His impersonation of the late prankish Kaufman is often so pitch-perfect, it's more like channeling than acting.
8. The channel was quickly switched, but there the two of them were again, cutting up like a couple of prankish schoolkids.
9. These days, he said, radicals get more bang organizing with Web sites and e-mail messages than holding prankish demonstrations.
10. Phoenix and his comrades behave like jolly, prankish frat boys until it's time to get serious and save some lives.