fiendishness

It had to outlast Peru in an intercontinental playoff on eccentric penalty kicks most noted for how a reserve Australian goalkeeper danced around with a fine fiendishness.

Over the past decade the fiendishness of the challenges, and the contestants' baking standards, have risen like a well-proved Paul Hollywood loaf.

I knew that mob law had been substituted in all its fiendishness and barbarity.

And Hicks’s whisper was, if anything, worse than his scream, for the whisper carried with it a quality of institutional menace, even fiendishness, that the scream lost in its projection across the parade ground and through the ranks of bald men.

Her grins betray pride in her work and in her own fiendishness, blending her callous coltishness with a midcareer self-assurance.