devilry

Example Sentences

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He possessed both the winemaking skills and an appetite for devilry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

What else could it be — and what new devilry is waiting for us tomorrow?

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2019

There’s hardly one whole brain to be assembled from the scraps of mentality distributed among the story’s criminal plotters—and Steve, with his laid-back overconfidence in his casually cavalier devilry, proves no sharper than the rest.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 29, 2016

A different, more downbeat brand of devilry is afoot in "The Exorcist," which takes off from William Peter Blatty’s bestselling 1971 novel and director William Friedkin's 1973 film.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2016

If he’s thoughtful, then there’s devilry behind it.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir