Word Meanings - MISCHIEF-MAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.

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• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• MISCHIEFFUL
  Mischievous. Foote.
• MISCHIEFABLE
  Mischievous. Lydgate.
• ENMITY
  1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. No ground of enmity between us known. Milton. 2. A state of opposition; hostility. The friendship of the world is enmity with God. James iv. 4. Syn. -- Rancor; hostility; hatred;
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• MISCHIEF-MAKING
  Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. Rowe. -- n.
• QUARRELSOME
  Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric. Syn. -- Pugnacious; irritable; irascible; brawling; choleric; fiery; petulant. -- Quar"rel*some*ly, adv. -- Quar"rel*some*ness,
• MISCHIEF-MAKER
  One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.