diablerie
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The Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque.
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Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time.
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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.
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But you know that I have never taken much interest in them, and least of all in their diablerie.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
She was the incarnation of girlish diablerie indulging an irresistible desire to torment.
From The Trail of Conflict by Loring, Emilie Baker