diablerie
noun
diabolic magic or art; sorcery; witchcraft.
diableries
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pluralof diablerie.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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By what may or may not be coincidence, their admirably precise diableries are also gentler, more conventional, more philosophical, more ethereal than their American counterparts'.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in spite of his temper and his diableries he was very lovable and everybody liked him.
From The Sheik by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
Milton was notoriously fond of high romance and gothic diableries; and Collins, who in genius and enthusiasm bore no very distant resemblance to Milton, was wholly carried away by the same attachments.
From The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir by William Collins
What if no more are the grisettes of Paul de Kock and Murger to fascinate the eye with wistful diableries?
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
I want it to be pleasant and gay, and to throw myself en garçon on the festive diableries de Paris.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth
