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

How about you, dear reader: Who are the sword and sorcery protagonists that scratch your itch for devilry and adventure?

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2021

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

And while the great majority behaved properly, fleeing at the sound of Tehlu’s name and keeping their devilry within reasonable bounds, many did not.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss