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

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

Neither "realist" or "psychologist" hits the mark, when it comes to the true diablerie of living people.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper