devilment

Example Sentences

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The most prestigious test factory in the U.S. is in Princeton, N. J. Last week the factory worked overtime cooking up new devilments for defenseless scholars.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was not until after a long campaign against smut-writers and publishers that he turned his eye to the devilments of the quack doctors and abortionists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Put briefly, the deluded patient is more apt to divine correctly the diseases of his body than his devilments by society.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

In his anger and triumph over her he devised the most cunning of all punishments; he told her of the movement's progress, of its ingeniously contrived devilments in store, of its inevitable success.

From A Poor Wise Man by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Pretty devilments I knew those fellows at crammers' were up to sometimes.

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.