Mischievous vs Screwball - What's the difference?
mischievous | screwball |
Causing mischief; injurious.
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Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved.
(baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.
(US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
(originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.
* 2013 , Tom Shone, Oscar nominations pull a surprise by showing some taste – but will it last?'' (in ''The Guardian , 11 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2013/jan/11/oscar-nominations-surprise-taste]
As adjectives the difference between mischievous and screwball
is that mischievous is causing mischief; injurious while screwball is (originally us) crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.As a noun screwball is
(baseball) a pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.mischievous
English
Alternative forms
* mischievious, mischevious (common misspellings)Adjective
(en adjective)- Matthew had a twin brother called Edward, who was always mischievous and badly behaved.
Synonyms
* (causing mischief) harmful, hurtful, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, destructive; see also * (badly-behaved) badly-behaved, naughtyDerived terms
* mischievously * mischievousnessExternal links
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*screwball
English
Noun
(en noun)- The screwball is not thrown much because it tends to damage pitcher's arms.
- I will not listen to this screwball any longer.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Also a big hand for Silver Linings Playbook , an exuberant modern screwball comedy we had, in an unseemly fit of cynicism, deemed "too entertaining" for Academy voters.