As mischievous as

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

He is as mischievous as she is meticulous.

Although both cats and dogs can be as mischievous as toddlers and as rebellious as teenagers, they are always happy to see you and they never talk back.

Smith, who in conversation is as mischievous as her work might suggest, insists not: "It seems to me very simple and unostentatious".

"Some of the musical numbers that kid the old musical clichés, such as fashion parades and pinwheel chorus groups, are as mischievous as they come," Bosley Crowther wrote in The Times in 1952.

This was a show that was watching us as keenly as we were watching it, and at its centre was a king who was as observant as he was plangent, and as mischievous as he was self-destructive.

Mr. Sharpton's lawyer, Michael A. Hardy, has been as mischievous as any of the participants, shouting at the judge and berating the plaintiff, Steven A. Pagones, as he defends Mr. Sharpton from claims that he and two other Brawley advisers defamed Mr. Pagones with false accusations that he raped Ms. Brawley, a black 15-year-old, in 1987.

I think the gag was about politicians being mischievous as well as the blindness joke".

All his subjects – Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Bucks Fizz, John Lydon – were delightfully over-exaggerated, as mischievous and eccentric as their interrogator.

In The Tramp, Chaplin created a character that was soft-hearted and vulnerable, as well as mischievous.

New York may be a safer, cleaner and less argumentative place than it was in the 1980s, but the Ed Koch of 2010 appears as contentious, as mischievous and at times as inflammatory as ever.

But there were no Disneyfied abominations: the baboons, with their playful upturned tails, looked as mischievous, mold-mottled, and ancient as the originals.