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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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
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
Ole Scratch hez got hold o’ him, an’ I reck’n he’ll be catchin’ it by this time for the deviltries he carried on while about hyar.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
At night while he slept, he was hounded by dreams in which the conscious repression of his waking hours went by the board and he was delivered over to the fantastic deviltries of the subconscious.
From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair
