deviltries
- plural of deviltry.
Example Sentences
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Too familiar were they with Vienna's fantastic deviltries to ignore such a scent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because it does not have to crowd the child's progressive deviltries into a few solid blocks of stage action, the film makes Emil a more thoroughly plausible character than he was in the play.
From Time Magazine Archive
Josh Clunk, London criminal lawyer, who chants revival hymns while plotting legal deviltries, saves a client and clears up, in his own oblique style, four mysterious deaths in a corrupt English seaside town.
From Time Magazine Archive
After that it was impossible to feign ignorance as to the interior workings and deviltries of motor cars.
From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville
Into the crevices of his flat house in his now far-away New York have penetrated from time to time vague whisperings of the laxative deviltries, the bold saucinesses of the city by the Seine.
From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.
