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devilry
[ dev-uhl-ree ]
devilry
/ ˈdɛvəlrɪ /
noun
- reckless or malicious fun or mischief
- wickedness or cruelty
- black magic or other forms of diabolism
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of devilry1
C18: from French diablerie, from diable devil
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Example Sentences
He was surrounded with bravado and devilry, with all the disbanded sins of the Flanders regiments.
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The pen can give but a shadow of the drollery and devilry of the sweet, merry rogues that hailed the smiling morn.
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They are desperate, then, and seem to exult in devilry of all kinds.
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So I hit him, and hit him rather hard, for what he had said out of pure devilry.
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All the—passez-moi le mot—devilry between the sexes begins at their separation.
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