deviltry

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Deviltry and curiosity apparently had as much as scientific inquiry to do with his zest for flight in rain, storm, fog, guiding planes solely by their then rudimentary instrument boards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed there were: some 320 towns in Byelorussia alone bore names like Roofless, Slobsville and Dirt; Abscess, Deviltry and Grief.*

From Time Magazine Archive

I shall entitle it 'Breed's Handbook of Political Deviltry.'

From The Landloper by Day, Holman

Deviltry had to be done under cover now.

From The Sheriff's Son by Raine, William MacLeod

Deviltry be it, if you prefer the word, and all deference to you, Mrs Lawford.

From The Return by De la Mare, Walter