Definition of Mischief

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Mischief

Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport.

Cause of trouble or vexation; trouble.

To do harm to.

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Mischief Quotations

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew Jackson

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander Pope

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
Aeschylus

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mischief Translations

mischief in German is Unheil, Unfug, Unheil, Schaden, Unfug
mischief in Italian is malanno
mischief in Spanish is travesura, calamidad
mischief in Swedish is rackartyg, ofog, okynne, odygd

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