diablerie
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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
The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.
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Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time.
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Louis was charmed by this exquisite exhibition of drollery and diablerie, and three weeks later she was brought to dance at Versailles.
From Terribly Intimate Portraits by Lorn Loraine
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 Harry Bates
By what may or may not be coincidence, their admirably precise diableries are also gentler, more conventional, more philosophical, more ethereal than their American counterparts'.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is one more diabolical picture in our budget, engraved by Mr. Thompson, the same dexterous artist who has rendered the former diableries so well.
From George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray
I want it to be pleasant and gay, and to throw myself en garçon on the festive diableries de Paris.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth
It is a strange wild piece, quite in the German style and full of horrors and diableries.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
But in spite of his temper and his diableries he was very lovable and everybody liked him.
From The Sheik by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
