diablerie

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

She had a habit of screwing up her small gray-green eyes into two glimmering little slits of light, with an effect of shyness showing through amusement and diablerie.

From The High Heart by King, Basil

This "Black Doctor" is not a trout-fly, nor the sort of person who might be expected in a story of diablerie.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George