deviltry
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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
It was another bit of deviltry cooked up by education majors.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2012
Finnegan is capable of similar deviltry Sunday, unless Naanee grabs him.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2011
The last I saw of him, he lay on his left side, an amulet in his hand to guard against deviltry on his last, long journey.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Because it does not have to crowd the child's progressive deviltries into a few solid blocks of stage action, the film makes Emil a more thoroughly plausible character than he was in the play.
From Time Magazine Archive
Josh Clunk, London criminal lawyer, who chants revival hymns while plotting legal deviltries, saves a client and clears up, in his own oblique style, four mysterious deaths in a corrupt English seaside town.
From Time Magazine Archive
Too familiar were they with Vienna's fantastic deviltries to ignore such a scent.
From Time Magazine Archive
My most intimate friend was Harry Colemain, and we were mixed up in all sorts of deviltries together.
From We Three by Hutt, Henry
After that it was impossible to feign ignorance as to the interior workings and deviltries of motor cars.
From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville
