The latest deviltry caused by some students made the school impose strict disciplinary policies. From LearnThat.org.
He's in here, trying to make up his mind what kind of deviltry to get into next. From Wordnik.com. [The Fuzzy Papers]
And I suppose "deviltry" developed from the old devilry. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1] Reference
The unthinking deviltry of the young scoundrel!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
Adam's deviltry, began to destroy everything it touched. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
He arose, face all reckless gaiety; rollicking deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
"What deviltry has bewitched you?" cried Tom passionately. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
They had been so full of energy and humor and dare-deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
She left shortly after you went, and she means some deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
They both had active minds -- overactive in devising deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Many joined Clark for mere adventure, for plunder and deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
We judged they was studying up some kind of worse deviltry than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference
Little enough did I ever get out of that particular piece of deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
Next in deviltry were the Kiowas, and then the Arapahoes and Comanches. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Joe turned appealingly to Garry, only to meet eyes flaring with deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
"I'll bet the kids get some of their deviltry by direct line of descent.". From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
You might go far in that quarter for anything of dare-deviltry so likeable. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Alack for Irish humour, eloquence and deviltry, that it should come to this!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 26, 1892] Reference
And my particular class excelled not just at mischief but a little deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [Speak the Speech, I Pray Thee!"] Reference
"'Tis some infernal deviltry of St. Aulaire's, I'll be bound," said Mr. Morris. From Wordnik.com. [Calvert of Strathore] Reference
The mesh of the outlaw's deviltry was strong; her flutterings were feeble, futile. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
You can perceive the sincerity of some of what he does and the manipulative deviltry of some. From Wordnik.com. [The Way It Really Was] Reference
"There is some sort of deviltry around wherever we have happened to be ever since the war began.". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet] Reference
They will always be doing some deviltry or other, it makes no difference who is up or who is down. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
She had some kind of stroke, perhaps from fright, or pure deviltry which 'put her out of business'. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Plutina, sick with the treacherous deviltry of the device, heard the grunt of satisfaction with which. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
When she was most ardently singing hymns or planning deviltry she yet seemed gently aloof and critical. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
They're mostly the worst sort, an 'it's a kind of rivalry amongst them which'll tell the most deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Then, ironically, Duchamp's daring deviltry itself became a classic on postcards and posters and mugs. From Wordnik.com. [Dada on Display at the National Gallery of Art] Reference
Avoiding her eye, he assumed an elaborate carelessness, like that of a boy who had been up to some deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Russia dry of all the shipped-in Scotch and get myself reduced to the ranks for insubordination and deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
This did not satisfy us and we went for Cocash; we wanted "blood!" or at least an imitation of crime and deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
At the same time there was not a trace of deviltry about her: it was simply an attraction which I could not resist. From Wordnik.com. [In Those Days The Story of an Old Man] Reference
Romanism is a power for evil, unequaled by any creed of deviltry and diabolical cunning ever conceived by mortal man. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light] Reference
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