mischievously

adv

Etymology: From Middle English mischevously, myschevously, equivalent to mischievous + -ly.

1. In a mischievous manner.

   “That's all I claim for Boston,—that it is the thinking centre of the continent, and therefore of the planet. / ―And the grand emporium of modesty,—said the divinity student, a little mischievously.”

   “But the shifting moral tone is perfectly caught in Helen McCrory's polymorphous Phocion, who is mischievously aware of her sexual power and switches from macho snarls when seducing a woman to flirty oeillades when playing with a man.”