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  • noun Plural form of deviltry.

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Examples

  • He was a gay, mad young dog, grandly careless of his largess, fearless as a lion's whelp, lithe and beautiful as a leopard, and mad, a trifle mad of the deviltries and whimsies that tickled in that fine brain of his.

    CHAPTER XIII 2010

  • This unconquerableness but fanned Leclère's wrath and stirred him to greater deviltries.

    BÂTARD 2010

  • The shaman was being helped out by the big medicines from the other tribes, and it shivered my spine up and down, the deviltries they cut.

    SIWASH 2010

  • They gathered up scraps of food which had touched his lips, an empty whiskey bottle, a cocoanut from which he had drunk, and even his spittle, and performed all kinds of deviltries over them.

    YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010

  • He had seen too many deviltries of fur-thieves that worked.

    Lost Face 2010

  • The Emperor grew more weak-legged and blear-eyed what of the ingenious deviltries devised for him by

    Chapter 15 2010

  • "You must live here, and teach us all of your deviltries," was the reply.

    Lost Face 2010

  • But the excursions of Harlem onto Broadway, the deviltries of the dull and the revelries of the respectable are a matter of esoteric knowledge only to the participants themselves.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • He did not know whether the giant was plotting new deviltries or had been summoned away by that muttering voice, but he wasted no time in conjectures.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • He did not know whether the giant was plotting new deviltries or had been summoned away by that muttering voice, but he wasted no time in conjectures.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

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