MISCHIEF | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of mischief in English

(Definition of mischief from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of mischief

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We need legislation appropriate to cover a variety of different situations and mischiefs that cause problems in local communities.
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All sorts of conceivable mischiefs have been conjured up with regard to this regulation.
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The validity of whatever the legislation is applies equally, irrespective of the prevalence or otherwise of the mischiefs that the legislation attempts to prevent.
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Seeing that the burden is falling upon the taxpayer it ought to be administered locally, otherwise great mischiefs may arise.
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We find ourselves in the 1990s with new, well-defined mischiefs that the law does not address at all or does not address with any certainty.
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We have concentrated on the real mischiefs that need to be addressed in terms of international crime.
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There are already provisions in place to combat mischiefs of this sort.
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A continuance of the present system will be filled with a thousand evils and innumerable mischiefs.
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The mischiefs involved in the present system of agricultural support have gone on too long.
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I accept that there are evils and mischiefs here which need to be addressed.
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What encourages them is inefficiency and extravagance, and the only way to correct those mischiefs is to discuss and to have full information.
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The worst mischiefs which arise from clubs are largely due to providing liquor at hours when it cannot be got at public-houses.
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I may, of course, have exaggerated the mischiefs.
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We should not let present mischiefs go unchecked for 10 years while we debate freedom of information, privacy and confidentiality.
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I do not conceal from myself that it is in the nature of a compromise, with all the mischiefs of compromises.
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Translations of mischief

in Chinese (Traditional)
(尤指兒童的)惡作劇,淘氣,搗蛋, 損害, 傷害…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(尤指儿童的)恶作剧,淘气,捣蛋, 损害, 伤害…
in Spanish
travesuras, travesura [feminine, singular]…
in Portuguese
travessuras, travessura [feminine]…
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in Ukrainian
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in Italian
いたずら…
muziplik, yaramazlık, afacanlık…
espièglerie [feminine], bêtise [feminine], méfait…
entremaliadura…
ondeugendheid, onheil…
ballade, fortræd, skade…
ofog, rackartyg, ont…
kenakalan, kerosakan…
der Unfug, das Unheil…
ugagn [masculine], rampestrek, spillopper…
шкода, збиток, зло…
шалость, озорство…
شَقاوة…
neplecha, uličnictví, škoda…
kenakalan, kerusakan…
การก่อกวน, ความเสียหาย…
trò tinh quái, điều ác, sự tổn hại…
figle, psoty, psota…
나쁜 행동…
marachella, birichinata, malanno…
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