deviltry

Example Sentences

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The mildly disastrous consequences of Eddie’s deviltry predictably set up the big moment at the end of the show in which Ward or June Cleaver would distill an important Life Lesson from the experience.

From Washington Post • May 18, 2020

Why does Dirk — clearly an evil mastermind on the rise — care so much about his wishy-washy, rather inept partner in deviltry?

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2019

Ms. Mendes brings a sweet perfume of deviltry to her comely Clarice, who’s none too pleased about her long engagement to Alcippe, and happy to fan the flames of his jealousy.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2017

It was another bit of deviltry cooked up by education majors.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2012

“It is a marvelously small ear, and at the top it is shaped and carved after the fashion in which old sculptors indicated deviltry and vice in their statues of satyrs.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson