Ill
Ill adjective - Causing or capable of causing harm.
Usage example: one of the ill effects of winter weather is the rapid spread of germs as people spend more time together indoors
Mischievous and ill are semantically related in help topic. In some cases you can use "Mischievous" instead an adjective "Ill".
Nearby Word: illness
Mischievous
Mischievous adjective - Causing or capable of causing harm.
Usage example: mischievous gossip that ruined a good woman's reputation
Ill and mischievous are semantically related in help topic. Sometimes you can use "Ill" instead an adjective "Mischievous", if it concerns topics such as devilish.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Flit's cutesy dogs Poodgie-Woo and Tinkie-Wee are quickly revealed to be ill-tempered, mischievous mongrels with a collective mean streak twice as long as your arm.
Source: Devil in Plain Sight - Children who are adventurous and who have interesting stories to tell, or to tell about, always seem to be mischievous at least and sometimes downright naughty and ill behaved.
Source: Naughty Is Good -
Man Child: Higgins is portrayed as being very childish — mischievous, manipulative, candid, sulky, ill-mannered, selfish, tyrannical, thoughtless and a complete mamma's boy (much to the dismay of said mamma).
Source: Theatre / Pygmalion
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