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n. the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks
Word Usage
"This is the sort of "prankishness" one imagines Kazin to have been complaining about and that no longer ” after fifty years of postmodern experimentation (and five Zuckerman books by Philip Roth) ” sticks in our craw."