devilry
Example Sentences
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He possessed both the winemaking skills and an appetite for devilry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
What else could it be — and what new devilry is waiting for us tomorrow?
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2019
A different, more downbeat brand of devilry is afoot in "The Exorcist," which takes off from William Peter Blatty’s bestselling 1971 novel and director William Friedkin's 1973 film.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2016
The film is certainly stuffed with devilry, and Eggers is not shy of familiar tropes.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016
‘The Dead can’t be really there! Is it some devilry hatched in the Dark Land?’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
