deviltry

• Wherever there was deviltry, there was Bill Jones, profane and obscene beyond description, but irresistibly comical. —  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
• The ideal there is not a sharp and stinging deviltry, a swift massacre of all the commandments, but a liquid and tolerant geniality, a great forgiveness. —  Europe After 8:15
• He had an instinct for mischief and deviltry, and a way with him that led captive the heart and devotion of all boys. —  Confessions of Boyhood
• He was a reckless young devil, attracted to our service more, it seemed to me, by a spirit of dare-deviltry than patriotism. —  My Lady of Doubt
• It was dark enough for any kind of deviltry in that four-hundred foot gash in the earth; the sinking moon lightened only a strip along the east wall, near the top; lower down, smoke mingling with the natural gloom cast an impenetrable veil from bank to bank; not a breath of air stirred the tomblike stillness. —  Raw Gold A Novel

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