diablerie
Example Sentences
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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
The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Short as the poem is, there is in it character, humour, pathos, satire, indignation, tenderness, fun, frolic, diablerie, almost every human feeling.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Setoun, Gabriel
Well," said Theodore, "what think you of Lothair's pretty little specimen of diablerie?
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
