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deviltry

[dev-uhl-tree] / ˈdɛv əl tri /


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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

Too familiar were they with Vienna's fantastic deviltries to ignore such a scent.

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

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

They swept the seas For England; and—we reap the fruits Of their heroic deviltries!

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

You will have heard of this man, whose follies and deviltries are the talk of Europe.

From The Princess Galva A Romance by David Whitelaw


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