devilry

She could write and she wrote a great deal, including detective fiction, a gothic thriller “of devilry, seduction, and hashish” and stories about “ghosts, suicides, and kidnapping.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

That makes a person wonder what manner of devilry they're concealing; after all, if there's literally nothing to see in front of us, surely it's hiding elsewhere.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2022

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

Whereas the dread of devilry, in “The Witch,” was rooted deep in the faith of the early settlers, “The Lighthouse” has to create its own mythology as it goes along.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 18, 2019

‘There’s some devilry at work in the Shire,’ he said.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

With it, too, the idle can pass many an hour, which otherwise he would have given, not to work, but to extravagant devilries.

From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Theer comed a circus here last month, with braave doin’s in the way of horsemanship and Merry Andrews, and such like devilries.

From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

The Second Part of Faust is devilry all through, a tissue of bewilderments and devilries.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson

No, no! these artifices and devilries with dead bodies may deceive the soldiers of the 55th and the king's officers; but they are all lost upon men who have passed their days in the forest.

From Pathfinder; or, the inland sea by James Fenimore Cooper

The advance towards Bapaume was of special interest to R.F.C. squadrons on the Somme, for the town had been a troublesome centre of anti-aircraft devilries.

From Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott