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Devilish   /dˈɛvlɪʃ/   Listen
Devilish

adjective
1.
Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.  Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian.  "The cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen" , "The diabolical expression on his face" , "A mephistophelian glint in his eye"
2.
Playful in an appealingly bold way.  Synonyms: rascally, roguish.
adverb
1.
In a playfully devilish manner.  Synonym: devilishly.






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"Devilish" Quotes from Famous Books



... believes nothing else of God not to be an enemy of God, whose will alone must be blamed for the fact that not all of us are saved? Contrast this opinion with the one that is formed when a man first learns to know the Lord Christ, and it will be found to be nothing but devilish blasphemy. Hence the sense of this passage, 'Many are called,' etc., is far different. For the preaching of the Gospel is general and public, so that whoever will may hear and accept it. Furthermore, God has it preached ...
— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente

... another for less than this since the world began. There was once a certain Judas who carried out a plan of betrayal for a far smaller figure. But tell me. Have you never associated Gualtier and Hilda in your thoughts as partners in this devilish plot?" ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille

... what I have put down above is incredible, yet not a single detail have I distorted. With a quite devilish ingenuity they had fastened upon some true bits: I had suggested the change of hats with the cabby, I had wished to ride the giraffe, and the Tuttle person had secured my knife, but how monstrously untrue of me was the impression conveyed by these isolated facts. ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... for my frenzy finding no fit name, Sweep round the ample world with every sense, Grasp at the loftiest words to speak my flame, And call the glow, wherewith I burn, Quenchless, eternal, yea, eterne— Is that of sophistry a devilish play? ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... the right brand,—wild, tearing, dark, devilish fellows? We want no essence of milk and honey, you know. None but souls bitter as hemlock or scorching as lightning ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various


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