Prankishness

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. ❋ Malcolm, Janet (2001)

They were the mysterious, the unknown, and who was I, a seven-year-old, to analyse them and know their prankishness? ❋ Unknown (2010)

He lost his easy affability, his prankishness, and much of his good humor. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)

Brendan Gill, writing in The New Yorker, referred to some of his work as "boyish prankishness." ❋ Unknown (2008)

And I think that the prankishness of George's books, this dressing up in a quarterback's togs, playing golf with Sam Snead and all that, tied in somehow with the prankishness, the game-ness, this willingness to be fantastic which related to George's experiences at the Lampoon. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But Sarah and Mellie, in their overalls and dirty baseball jerseys, never had the boys 'heartless prankishness, the little devils dancing in the blacks of their eyes. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Like "Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written. ❋ George [Illustrator] Loughridge (N/A)

One would naturally think that the wear and tear of this intense application, day after day and night after night, would have tended to induce a heaviness and gravity of demeanor in these busy men; but on the contrary, the old spirit of good-humor and prankishness was ever present, as its frequent outbursts manifested from time to time. ❋ Unknown (1910)