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
This latter description of diablerie, is just a repetition of the Cock Lane ghost's tricks, and occasionally yet occurs.
Ladies in plenty were eager to know the young man who played Luce with such diablerie and ready wit upon the stage.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
