trouble, the devil to pay; reverse, reversal, reverse of fortune, setback, comedown, bitter pill; cross, check, checkmate; failure, fiasco, Inf.flop, Inf.fizzle, Inf. washout, Inf.dud, Sl.
bomb, Sl.
turkey.
mischief, n.1. harm, trouble, hurt, ill, wrong; destruction, unmaking, undoing, disruption, demolition, sabotage; vexation, annoyance, nuisance, agitation, pique.
2. injury, impairment, damage, disablement, incapacitation, weakening; ravage, scathe, detriment.
3. misconduct, misbehavior, misdemeanor, delinquency; badness, naughtiness, bad manners, disobedience; roguery, impishness, rascality, elfishness; Inf. goings-on, Inf.hanky-panky, Sl.
monkey business.
mischief-maker, n.1. troublemaker, imp, bad boy, little devil, Inf.bugger, Inf.booger; elf, puck, pixie, little rascal, little monkey; rascal, rogue, rapscallion, knave, scamp; rowdy, hoodlum, juvenile delinquent, hooligan, hell-raiser, thug, ruffian, vandal.
2. talebearer, rumormonger, storyteller, gossip, busybody; tattler, tattletale, wag; quidnunc, meddler, Sl. stickybeak.
3. agitator, firebrand, rabble-rouser, instigator; provoker, inciter, fomenter, rouser, Fr. provocateur.
mischievous, adj.1. harmful, injurious, hurtful, damaging, scatheful; pernicious, detrimental, baleful, deleterious, baneful; noxious, venomous, poisonous, malign, malignant.
2. impish, waggish, prankish, elfish, puckish; naughty, roguish, scampish, arch, Scot.
hempy; playful, sportive, full of mischief, fond of mischief, frolicsome; annoying, vexatious, exasperating, teasing.
misconceive, v. misunderstand, misapprehend, misconstrue, misread, misinterpret; misjudge, miscalculate; form the wrong notion, get the wrong idea; get off on the wrong foot, get a false start, jump the gun, go off half-cocked.
misconception, n.misunderstanding, misapprehension, misconstruction, misreading, misinterpretation, miscalculation, misjudgment; delusion, distorted idea ornotion, false belief orimpression; fallacy, failure to understand.
misconduct, n.1. bad conduct, wrong behavior, misbehavior, wrongdoing, malefaction, malfeasance; misdeed, wickedness, sinfulness, delinquency; turpitude, transgression, misstep.
2. mismanagement, misgovernment, miscarriage; venality, malpractice, misfeasance; nonfeasance, dereliction, negligence.
-v. 3. mismanage, misdirect, Sl.
screw up, mess up, Sl.
bollix up, foul up; bungle, boggle, muff, fumble; botch, make a mess orhash of, Sl.
blow; take a wrong turn, put the cart before the horse.
4. misbehave, transgress, backslide, sin, slip, trip; err, stray, go astray, stray from the straight and narrow; sow wild oats, Inf.go to the dogs, Sl.
go to hell in a handbasket; act up, make mischief.
misconstruction, n.misinterpretation, misunderstanding, misreading, misconception, miscalculation, misjudgment; warped ormistaken notion, wrong idea, false belief orimpression, fallacy, delusion, distortion, coloring of the facts.
misconstrue, v. misinterpret, misunderstand, misapprehend, misread, misconceive; misjudge, miscalculate, misreckon; put the wrong meaning on, garble, change the sense of, get the wrong idea, get a false impression; Sl.
goof, Sl.
screw up, mix up, misrepresent.
miscount, v. 1. misjudge, misreckon, miscompute. See - miscalculate.
-n. 2. miscalculation, misjudgment, miscomputa-tion, misreckoning, misestimation, misreading; underestimation, overestimation, underrating, overrating, overvaluation, undervaluation; mistake, error, blunder, Inf. slip-up.
