diablerie
Example Sentences
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The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
She's pale, but she glows like a rose: she has chaste eyes, but there is diablerie in the turn of her lip.
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia
