pranksters

plural of prankster

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pranksters
Noun
  • One notable exception seems to be the illuminated dot from some of the teasers.
    Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 4 Aug. 2026
  • San Diego Comic Con has kicked off, and new teasers and trailers will not be locked away in the convention center halls.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • Try for yourselves, ye witless knaves— Take each to bed your Sally!
    Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • The two buffoons shave her head, chain her in the basement of a messy remote home and then accuse her of being an alien.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But times have changed, and this team of buffoons is forced to grapple with changing industry ethics and sensationalist journalism in its transition, all while Ron faces an identity crisis that challenges his bravado, his massive ego.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Ours is not a society that loathes charlatans; look who’s running things.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2026
  • In place of San Francisco’s decaying arts bohemia of poseurs and charlatans, they can be said to be creating an alternate bohemia.
    Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Noun
  • Yusef Toubassi sits with his grandson Masa, looking on as children run by with cheeks painted bright colors and others howling with joy as clowns spin them around.
    Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Aug. 2026
  • One morning during my stay, there were even clowns buzzing about—a thrill to receive a balloon poodle alongside my morning flat white.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026
Noun
  • Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.
    Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • There are Jewish jokes and Jewish jokesters and Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters.
    Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The Harvard jokesters’ ad noted that a $10 million reward is being offered for the return of the 13 missing masterpieces that were taken from the Boston museum 35 years ago.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Few imposters have been quite as easy to spot as Terran Empire Spock, however, whose trademark goatee is something of a giveaway.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Players get points for correctly calling out imposters, or remaining undetected as impostors.
    Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026
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“Pranksters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pranksters. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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