“It has been reported in certain quarters that his actions are a prank or a public-relations stunt.”

“They were the mysterious, the unknown, and who was I, a seven-year-old, to analyse them and know their prankishness?”

“Indeed, the whole debacle has a tone of collegial prankishness turned sour.”

“Stressing its prankishness more than its psychopathology, he turns it at times into an Italian Noises Off.”

“In the back of the book put the lists for the prankee for future reference.”

“Before the prankee arrives, read the plans once again.”

“Hide it somewhere for the prankee to find it.”

“He was a prankster who devised outlandish, even fiendish, tricks to play on friends and unsuspecting associates.”

“Not merely a gargantuan egotist with boundless artistic ambition, he was a prankster on a grand scale.”

“It was hard to imagine how that merry prankster and mistress of worthy causes could be subject to such punishing mood swings.”

“When the pranksters revealed their hoax on Tuesday, the TV reporters threw a major hissy fit, outraged at having been sucked in.”

“We have a couple of pranksters and maybe once in a while someone runs off with a plant pot but it's hardly the wild streets of the inner cities!”

“But this year, residents are fuming after drunken pranksters stole the nativity figures.”

“Engineers responsible for the pranks may also be facing academic discipline from the university.”