My headstrong reaction was sheer mischief.

In sheer mischief the youngsters got into his wardrobe and chewed off.

On an impulse born out of sheer mischief, he deliberately licked her face from chin to hairline.

The lure of the wisp was sheer mischief.

Faustus decides, for sheer mischief's sake, to intervene in this clash of the pontiffs.

"Sten," she began, but the little man was hurrying on, his face crinkling into an expression that Heikki knew to be one of sheer mischief.

Joe steps in again, once more out of sheer mischief.

He'd never know why he continued: perhaps sheer mischief to get a little of his own back.

Kissing me twice out of sheer mischief.

The idea that an existing commitment can be renounced just because you decide you don't want to do it is sheer mischief.