deviltry
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The mildly disastrous consequences of Eddie’s deviltry predictably set up the big moment at the end of the show in which Ward or June Cleaver would distill an important Life Lesson from the experience.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2020
Why does Dirk — clearly an evil mastermind on the rise — care so much about his wishy-washy, rather inept partner in deviltry?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2019
What’s not to love about the team that used to be an emblem of deviltry and dysfunction?
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2016
It was another bit of deviltry cooked up by education majors.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2012
“It is a marvelously small ear, and at the top it is shaped and carved after the fashion in which old sculptors indicated deviltry and vice in their statues of satyrs.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Josh Clunk, London criminal lawyer, who chants revival hymns while plotting legal deviltries, saves a client and clears up, in his own oblique style, four mysterious deaths in a corrupt English seaside town.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because it does not have to crowd the child's progressive deviltries into a few solid blocks of stage action, the film makes Emil a more thoroughly plausible character than he was in the play.
From Time Magazine Archive
Too familiar were they with Vienna's fantastic deviltries to ignore such a scent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppose, now, you bring your boy home; he'll fret desperately under your long lectures, and with Miss Eliza, and perhaps run off into deviltries that will make him worse than those of the city.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various
For two hours he held them in the spell of his infectious deviltries.
From Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Thomson, Charles Goff
