deviltry
noun
reckless or unrestrained mischievous behavior.
deviltries
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pluralof deviltry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Too familiar were they with Vienna's fantastic deviltries to ignore such a scent.
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
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
My most intimate friend was Harry Colemain, and we were mixed up in all sorts of deviltries together.
From We Three by Henry Hutt
And one of them is free, and able to plan new deviltries.
From The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed by Robert Maitland
