diablerie

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He led the conversation in that direction, and very soon the Bishop, Brown, and himself were engaged in the discussion of diablerie.

From The Heart of Denise and Other Tales by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

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