devilry
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He possessed both the winemaking skills and an appetite for devilry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
That makes a person wonder what manner of devilry they're concealing; after all, if there's literally nothing to see in front of us, surely it's hiding elsewhere.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2022
How about you, dear reader: Who are the sword and sorcery protagonists that scratch your itch for devilry and adventure?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2021
A different, more downbeat brand of devilry is afoot in "The Exorcist," which takes off from William Peter Blatty’s bestselling 1971 novel and director William Friedkin's 1973 film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2016
But when the eighth came round, a certain Phoinikian adventurer came too, a plausible rat, who had already done plenty of devilry in the world.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
I have had enough of these small devilries, like Louis Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel—I am sick of Mazzini and his petty followers.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Lever, Charles James
With it, too, the idle can pass many an hour, which otherwise he would have given, not to work, but to extravagant devilries.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.
He looked at her and wondered what devilries might be stirring in her mind, what evil purpose she desired to serve.
From The Sea-Hawk by Sabatini, Rafael
Of all his myrmidons' devilries done in the land The last to hear!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 31, 1890 by Various
The Second Part of Faust is devilry all through, a tissue of bewilderments and devilries.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David
