devilry
Origin of devilry
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How to use devilry in a sentence
He was surrounded with bravado and devilry, with all the disbanded sins of the Flanders regiments.
A Cursory History of Swearing | Julian SharmanThe pen can give but a shadow of the drollery and devilry of the sweet, merry rogues that hailed the smiling morn.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles ReadeThey are desperate, then, and seem to exult in devilry of all kinds.
A Final Reckoning | G. A. HentySo I hit him, and hit him rather hard, for what he had said out of pure devilry.
A Tramp's Notebook | Morley RobertsAll the—passez-moi le mot—devilry between the sexes begins at their separation.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith
British Dictionary definitions for devilry
deviltry
/ (ˈdɛvəlrɪ) /
reckless or malicious fun or mischief
wickedness or cruelty
black magic or other forms of diabolism
Origin of devilry
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