mischief

IPA: mˈɪstʃʌf

(uncountable) Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.
(countable) A playfully annoying action.
(collective) A group or a pack of rats.
(archaic) Harm or injury:
(uncountable) Harm or trouble caused by an agent or brought about by a particular cause.
(countable) An injury or an instance of harm or trouble caused by a person or other agent or cause.
(law) A criminal offence defined in various ways in various jurisdictions, sometimes including causing damage to another's property.
(archaic, countable) A cause or agent of annoyance, harm or injury, especially a person who causes mischief.
(euphemistic) The Devil; used as an expletive.
(Australia) Casual and/or flirtatious sexual acts.

Examples of "mischief" in Sentences

What's your evidence that "mischief" is more rife in neuroscience than in physics?
And there was more yet of what we call mischief brewing in another quarter to like hurt.
His barrister, John Kelsey-Fry QC, suggested his client was not alone in creating what he described as "mischief" in the egg industry.
I. v.51 (423, 6) You wait on nature's mischief!] _Nature's mischief_ is mischief done to nature, violation of nature's order committed by wickedness.
And the mischief is the greater, and the ground the more cumbered, if it be a high, large, spreading tree, and if it be an old tree of long standing.
Sometimes the things he did in the house were what we call mischief because they annoy us, such as hammering the woodwork to pieces, tearing bits out of the leaves of books, working holes in chair seats, or pounding a cardboard box to pieces.
The one compensation for all this mischief is the rich additions to the apologetical and critical literature of the books of the New Testament, and the earliest history of the Christian Church, which it has drawn from the pens of Thiersch, Ebrard, and many others.