Word: mischiefism
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...explained that it would be "difficult" to rent a house to a single woman. He listed a series of apartment complexes that maintained unofficial policies allowing them to lease "only to families." Owners don't like the parties young men and women hold, he explained, nor "other mischief," which he wasn't willing to name, but hoped his shy smile would explain. The second agent was even more emphatic: A single woman would find it almost impossible to rent an apartment in Delhi. Owners would "have to be convinced of the fact that you're not a 'wrong' person...
...concern is that a faculty member’s financial ties will skew the results of research. “When money is in play, mischief is a constant companion,” Thrall says...
...Cape Fear, or maybe it was just that Shelley Winters was such a perfect victim. One of the best recent female villains was Polly Walker in HBO's series Rome. As Atia of the Julii, she is lovely, charming, sometimes even amusing, but always diabolically evil as she plots mischief, mayhem and revenge-and then flounces off to enjoy her latest male conquest. Rebecca Silverberg, San Francisco...
...today, as opening statements commence at Padilla's federal criminal trial in Miami, he seems little more than some poor schmo who the government says got mixed up in a vague plan to support terrorist mischief abroad...
Pity the poor hero. Oh, he gets the girl and saves the planet, but where's the fun in that? Love and duty are a puny match for the epochal mischief a prime bad guy can stir up. The villain may be the supporting part, but it's often the juiciest--from the snake upstaging Adam in the Garden of Eden to Shylock eclipsing Antonio to Jack Nicholson as the Joker in Batman swiping the spotlight from (hmm, who was that?) Michael Keaton...