devilry

How To Use devilry In A Sentence

• One thing he does is get up to a little competitive devilry by unveiling the Google Pack, a parcel of software programs that you can download for free (if you have a Windows PC).
• They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and "devilry" as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
• But, remember that the clincher in selecting the winners would be that spark of daredevilry that exemplifies the channel's spirit of action and adventurous.
• An earlier authority, Dallas in Kettner's Book of the Table, had stated that devils were of two kinds, the dry and the wet, but had also commented: It is the great fault of all devilry that it knows no bounds.
• The devilry exhibited by minibus drivers and their long-distance counterparts is fuelled by the inability of transport proprietors to maintain their fleets or single vehicles in reasonable condition.
• It seemed to look back at her mockingly, and eventually, she realized that she didn't have enough malice to withstand such devilry and took her defeat gracefully.
• Despite Cookie's ranting about the devilry of the Raleighs, I was still sure that there was a method behind their seemingly random cruelty.
• He told the Privy Council, sitting at the Supreme Court, there had been an abuse of process through a variety of "devilry". BBC News - Home
• They have devilry in their souls, and a movie like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban does not soothe them.
• He carried on with his devilry not just because he thought it served a good purpose, but also because he enjoyed it.