devilish

Example Sentences

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The U.S. soybean market has become a “secondary player” on the global market due to the trade war with China, Newsom said, and this won’t change unless Mother Nature gets “devilish with Brazil’s 2026 crop.”

From MarketWatch

How wordplay and devilish games of deduction can be as satisfying to the soul as a song.

From The Wall Street Journal

Australian scientists have discovered a new native bee species with tiny horns - and given it a suitably devilish name.

From BBC

I wasn’t into the devilish holiday, but I was also free and hungry, so I rolled right into the Thanksgiving date trap.

From Salon

It doesn’t make the devilish, insane and extreme “Dracula” any easier to take as a skewering of sensibilities and conventions.

From Los Angeles Times