Mischievious

'a want of food must and will keep the popular mind in such a state of irritability as to be easily worked upon by mischievious men'

Jenny and Lenny, the mischievious twins, With muddied knees and gap-toothed grins, And rumbling tummies - they lick their lips, It's time for fish fingers, beans and chips.

In French, the meanings of malicieux and malice have changed to mean mischievious and mischieviousness, with an implication of cleverness and perhaps a little teasing.

Most children are mischievious, in one way or another, but the boy in this book hatches a plan like no other, and invites some friends for dinner.