devilry

He was surrounded with bravado and devilry, with all the disbanded sins of the Flanders regiments.
A Cursory History of Swearing|Julian Sharman
The 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 Reade
They are desperate, then, and seem to exult in devilry of all kinds.
A Final Reckoning|G. A. Henty
So I hit him, and hit him rather hard, for what he had said out of pure devilry.
A Tramp's Notebook|Morley Roberts

All 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

devilry

deviltry

/ (ˈdɛvəlrɪ) /

noun plural -ries or -tries

reckless or malicious fun or mischief

wickedness or cruelty

black magic or other forms of diabolism

Word Origin for devilry

C18: from French diablerie, from diable devil

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