devilment

How To Use devilment In A Sentence

• One of the "brightest minds" in his class, he was one of the laziest; one of the quickest and most agile when aroused, he was one of the torpids as a rule: One of the kind who should have "gone in for honors," as the faculty said, he came nearer going out for devilment. Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters
• They both tried to talk of ordinary things for the few moments before that meal was announced, and then some kind of devilment seemed to come into Amaryllis -- nothing could have been more seductive or alluring than her manner, while keeping to strict convention. The Price of Things
• We ought not to participate in devilment by tolerating it.
• It wasn't like her to give in to Mother - usually she held out just for devilment. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
• In the second half, we dominated and with a little more devilment in the box could have won the game.
• He was as bright as a button, full of humour and with a large dash of devilment thrown in!
• She played a trick on him out of sheer devilment.
• Out of devilment, Ferguson then had the audacity to offer a four-to-one bet that Larsson would not score against his team.
• Life, it seems, had other plans for Jim; perhaps it had become a bit dull up on high and they coveted his unique brand of devilment.
• His teacher, Imelda Mulligan said: ‘Brian was a boy who loved life itself and his eyes were full of devilment.’