devilry
noun
dev·il·ry ˈde-vᵊl-rē 
variants or deviltry
plural devilries or deviltries
1
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: an act of devilry
Examples of devilry in a Sentence
children always getting into some devilry superstitious villagers who were quick to attribute an unexpected occurrence to devilry
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Dancing spirits, dressed in Victorian-era garb, stir up devilry as the night unfolds. —
Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025 If Michael Jackson moonwalked so that Prince could show us the face of God with his brain-melting 2007 set, the NFL’s reaction to Fox’s inspired bit of devilry set the stage for the league’s eventual takeover of the American psyche. —Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025 Madcap technical devilry, along with a jestful sense of humor, embroiders the edges of his endlessly replayable mix. —Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 2025 Maybe, Nicholas comes to think, what bedevils him is not a medical condition—the sort of thing a physician can properly diagnose—but the devilry of Pan. —Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025 As shown in his previous films, Eggers’ sensibility has roots not in contemporary horror but in stories from centuries past that become vivid and febrile, alive with an insidious devilry that inches under your skin. —David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024 That’s enough devilry to explain at least much of Haiti’s challenges without resorting to tales of satanic influence. —Matthew Brown, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024 Shyamalan, to be fair, has lost none of his compositional devilry; notice his bisecting of the screen with clean vertical lines—the trunk of a tree, or the edge of a shower curtain, behind which somebody may or may not lurk. —Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023 Suddenly, modernists were jockeying to impose some glass-and-steel devilry atop the old dame. —Shawn McCreesh, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2021
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Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025 If Michael Jackson moonwalked so that Prince could show us the face of God with his brain-melting 2007 set, the NFL’s reaction to Fox’s inspired bit of devilry set the stage for the league’s eventual takeover of the American psyche. —Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025 Madcap technical devilry, along with a jestful sense of humor, embroiders the edges of his endlessly replayable mix. —Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 2025 Maybe, Nicholas comes to think, what bedevils him is not a medical condition—the sort of thing a physician can properly diagnose—but the devilry of Pan. —Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025 As shown in his previous films, Eggers’ sensibility has roots not in contemporary horror but in stories from centuries past that become vivid and febrile, alive with an insidious devilry that inches under your skin. —David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024 That’s enough devilry to explain at least much of Haiti’s challenges without resorting to tales of satanic influence. —Matthew Brown, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024 Shyamalan, to be fair, has lost none of his compositional devilry; notice his bisecting of the screen with clean vertical lines—the trunk of a tree, or the edge of a shower curtain, behind which somebody may or may not lurk. —Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023 Suddenly, modernists were jockeying to impose some glass-and-steel devilry atop the old dame. —Shawn McCreesh, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2021
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devilry
noun
dev·il·ry ˈdev-əl-rē
variants or deviltry
plural devilries or deviltries
1
: wicked or cruel behavior
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