Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.
Playful in an appealingly bold way.
Pertaining to, or characteristic of a demon or evil spirit.
In a playfully devilish manner.
1 You are poor, devilish poor;-thatthe hole in your coat assures me.
2 Their devilish tears are contagious; and I can't cry; it chokes me.
3 His yellow teeth in their blue gums flashed in a devilish smile.
4 The overwhelming sea ran in dark watery mountains crested with devilish fire.
5 Chastity is just as unnatural and devilish as hunger; I hate both.
6 I shall make devilish work to-night in the larder, I promise you.
7 Aye, just in that I saw the devilish cunning of Captain Swope.
8 She did not leave you; she was driven away by devilish cruelty.
9 She glared at me a second, then gave me a devilish smile.
10 And a devilish bad one for the houses of Fitzgerald and Carewe.
11 They're devilish hard to capture, harder to train, and dangerous to handle.
12 This expedient broke the devilish blackness, and the saint shone out glorious.
13 Unfortunately, she can't stop thinking about the devilish gleam in his eyes.
14 As I approached Ball Cap's room, a devilish thought occurred to me.
15 And the whole house, even the sleeping-rooms, are under that devilish eye.
16 The hazard of death afar off had just defeated his devilish obstinacy.
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