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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 mis·chie·vous /ˈmɪsʧəvəs, ˈmɪʃ; &dɪvɪdɛ;mɪsˈʧiviəs, mɪʃ-/
 (a.)淘氣的,有害的,惡作劇的,胡攪的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mis·chie·vous a. Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child. “Most mischievous foul sin.”
    This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society.   --South.
 Syn: -- Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious; destructive.
 -- Mis*chie*vous*ly, adv. -- Mis*chie*vous*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 mischievous
      adj 1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with
             impish laughter" [syn: impish, implike, pixilated,
              prankish, puckish]
      2: badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a
         naughty boy" [syn: naughty]
      3: deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and
         falsehoods"