Adverb
In a mischievous manner.
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That's all I claim for Boston,—that it is the thinking centre of the continent, and therefore of the planet. / ―And the grand emporium of modesty,—said the divinity student, a little mischievously.
But the shifting moral tone is perfectly caught in Helen McCrory's polymorphous Phocion, who is mischievously aware of her sexual power and switches from macho snarls when seducing a woman to flirty oeillades when playing with a man.
Coleridge smiles mischievously
Adverb
in a disobedient or naughty way
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he behaved badly in school
he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister
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behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room