diablerie

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Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time.

From Time Magazine Archive

Belated days of sunshine quickened all Hungary last week, speeding the Danube with tumbling freshets, warming Budapest to humorous appreciation of the first spring diablerie of Sari Fedak.

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The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is very clever and very entertaining—replete with pleasantry and humour: quite as imaginative as any German diablerie, and far more amusing than most productions of its class.

From A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. by Crockett, Davy

Beneath the polish and the surface comradeship, Jim had always been conscious of some diablerie about the man, of some inner life of which he knew nothing.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 by Bates, Harry