diablerie

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Belated days of sunshine quickened all Hungary last week, speeding the Danube with tumbling freshets, warming Budapest to humorous appreciation of the first spring diablerie of Sari Fedak.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time.

From Time Magazine Archive

She's pale, but she glows like a rose: she has chaste eyes, but there is diablerie in the turn of her lip.

From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia

Louis was charmed by this exquisite exhibition of drollery and diablerie, and three weeks later she was brought to dance at Versailles.

From Terribly Intimate Portraits by Loraine, Lorn