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• n  the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks

• In Director William's conception of the comedy, the prankishness and the poetry are divorced instead of being mated.
• Moore uses a similar mixture of prankishness, populism and deadpan naivete on TV Nation.
• Classmates who remember Pynchon at all recall a tall, shy young man, occasionally given to bursts of prankishness.

• rascality
• roguishness