diablerie

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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

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

His best effects are achieved in sudden striking images which seem to have in them a depth of fantastic diablerie worthy of the wreck-strewn "humming waters" whose secrets he loved to penetrate.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper

She meets none of the requirements of my intellectual nature, and her perverse disposition, and what might almost be termed diablerie, repel instead of attracting me.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans