How To Use Devilish In A Sentence

The one are fellows called devilish good -- the other, fellows called devilish gentleman like. Godolphin, Complete
The makeup for the Djinn character is creepy and evil, like some devilish creature from an R-rated version of Star Wars.
Angie turned to see Maya standing there with a devilish grin.
This twenty-something Wood-elf is not what you would call devilishly handsome yet is never-the-less attractive in a somewhat boyish way. Undefined
Well, then, seriously, melodrama was the correct ticket and all that in 1840, but we've outgrown it; it's devilish demode to chuck things in people's faces. Lady Baltimore

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His character never lost his inherent devilishness though, and he'd worn that wicked smile through the entire movie.
He was handsome, with a devilish charm.
On the other hand, ‘bitter envy and selfish ambition’ does not come from above, ‘but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish’.
You may be in devilish fine form to-day, but your throat is rotten. The Water Baby
Goud has always exhibited a devilish irreverence for hierarchies, whether in art or in life.
The abracadabra of the mages operating on their minds, some devilish conjuration. LORD PRESTIMION
And a devilish mustard-oil-red-pepper coulis allows seared scallops to start velvety, then bite back.
The genius of Lee's film is that it too exploits the American minstrel heritage - the Sambo performances are devilishly powerful - but with a careful emphasis.
A figure clad in a black leather jacket called out from the next table chuckled and turned towards the two girls, revealing an devilish, cheeky grin.
There seems to be a wild idea revolving around in the heart of government that we were part a devilish clever plot to blacken them.
devilish schemes
Walt Disney has done devilishly well in animating evil incarnate at the climax of the film. Will You Go See Avatar?
His face is now a cruel devilish beast's with huge fangs.
STUNNINGLY successful and devilishly handsome, Jose Mourinho is the manager with the Midas touch.
Carnegy loved pleasure mightily, painted her face "devilishly," and drove in the park flauntingly. Royalty Restored
Toledo, I must needs confess and acknowledge that veritably the devils cannot be killed or die by the stroke of a sword, I do nevertheless avow and maintain, according to the doctrine of the said diabology, that they may suffer a solution of continuity (as if with thy shable thou shouldst cut athwart the flame of a burning fire, or the gross opacous exhalations of a thick and obscure smoke), and cry out like very devils at their sense and feeling of this dissolution, which in real deed I must aver and affirm is devilishly painful, smarting, and dolorous. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
For reasons I shall not mention, by paths of descent I shall not describe, in the crown of my manhood and the prime of my devilishness in which Oxford renegades and racing younger sons had nothing on me, I found myself master and owner of a schooner so well known that she shall remain historically nameless. THE PRINCESS
But until Friday, nobody had seen what Bill Cox and his co-workers saw — something with a devilish underbite, sinister eyes and a cold-blooded appetite. Aligator Found in Chicago River « Skid Roche
However, much to the man's surprise, the devilish animal scampered away just as the dog had done.
A divine love which had in it no necessity of hating evil would be profoundly immoral, and would be called devilish more fitly than divine. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
He was handsome, with a devilish charm.
I couldn't wait to get to the set to play this guy, because I thought he was such a cool dude, and so deliciously devilish, and so funny.
arguments" the term venerable is used instead of mouldy, and hallowed instead of devilish; whereas there is nothing properly venerable or antique about a language which is not yet four hundred years old, and about a jumble of imbecile spellings which were grotesque in the beginning, and which grow more and more grotesque with the flight of the years. Chapters from My Autobiography
His retelling of ancient stories that poke fun at our society is devilishly clever.
This use never caught on, but the devilish connotation of the word reappeared over 200 years later when Sir Walter Scott used Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
Then Mr. Pike took a hand, seizing the hauling-part next to the pin and lifting his voice with a rare snap and devilishness: CHAPTER VIII
Naturally, once China showed a willingness to abandon its axenic attitude towards foreign devils and all things foreign-devilish, the William of Germany
‘That gives me a great idea,’ she said, with a devilish grin.
She was far from perfection and innocence, yet far from devilishness and wrong.
In this game, the player must navigate a devilish labyrinth fighting many evil turbanized sword wielding fiends and avoiding razor sharp spikes of death.
What she would give to punch him on the nose, and flatten once and for all his insulting, devilish assumptions.
‘I forgot how ticklish you are,’ he laughed devilishly.
No other contemporary band is this fiercely unique or devilishly immediate.
Northern Ireland and the Balkans demonstrate that the dark side of religion is truly devilish!
At the same time, it sets up a clear formula, so that we can delight in the heroics of the good guys and the devilish mischief of our main man.
From where Cal stands, looking down, each toe seems to smile with a devilish black arc of under nail dirt.
Thanatos, the horrifying creature of death and decay, turned a devilish head towards the hero.
7040Hes tough, maam, tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly. Quotations
Many of the more recent stories are gems, including a pair from _EQMM, _but so is the 1973 _AHMM _tale "To Hide a Tree," combining a unique and devilishly clever howdunit with a sharply observed reflection of its time. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
With his deep-set green eyes, and perfect chiseled features, Manda wasn't surprised why most girls in campus thought of him devilishly handsome.
The more T-nuts you insert - try to place at least three or four per square foot - the easier it will be to rearrange your holds into fresh and ever more devilish configurations.
Shakespeare apparently saw a devilish aspect to a gossipy chatterer; he used "flibbertigibbet" in Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
This may be called a devilish zeal; for as there is the faith of devils, so there is the zeal of devils: "Therefore his rage is great, because he knows his time is short. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
Next, he called the chaplain, -- for he would fain have him at his elbow to countenance the devilish deeds he meditated, -- and embarked, with him, twelve soldiers, and two Indian guides, in another boat. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863
As a further devilish touch he has misprinted some letters* in the clues, all first or last letters of a word. Annotated solutions for Genius 96
And what is this Black Box, if not an epicentre of devilish debauchery.
It is just those, the good fellows, the worth while, the fellows with the weakness of too much strength, too much spirit, too much fire and flame of fine devilishness, that he solicits and ruins. Chapter 13
The answer he supplied was fairly accurate: swirling wind and devilish opponent, both of whom made life extremely difficult.
Because these nanobes are so incredibly tiny, they are devilishly hard for scientists to work with.
Trees can be devilishly clever, especially when they work in concert.
He grinned devilishly, ‘But it's so damn fun to annoy you, Alex.’
For the battle scenes Richard replaces his corset with black trousers and gloves and a red jacket summing up his role as devilish assassin.
Sexual mischief was again on the menu with a delightful excerpt from Don Giovanni, as Ewan Taylor charmed devilishly as Mozart's willingly damned Lothario.
Of the men who, as I have said, admired her, some felt a peculiar enchantment in what they called her ugliness; others declared her devilish handsome; and some shrank from her as if with an undefined dread of perilous entanglement, if she should but catch them looking her in the face. Mary Marston
We see Agent B storming in to the restaurant's kitchen, devilishly sucking the spoon from a pot of sauce and challenging an atypically frolicsome chef to a French-stick sword fight. The Hard Sell: KGB Deals
They were devilish devices, slightly higher than the average person's knee. CORMORANT
I was fortunate enough to be running SpinSkins Kevlar tire liners which did a first class job of fending off those devilish thorns.
It's devilishly simple to participate in Porking Friends - read the five ads below, reproduced as they appeared in the paper.
Costner, with his easy grin, incipient beer belly, thinning hair and bright devilish eyes, plays broken-down convincingly.
They frowned on His Devilishness because he was easy-going, slothful, frequently blitzed out of his head, and interested only in pleasure.
It also kept the idea of evil as a devilish personal force prowling around ready to get into you.
Shelley and Stockbridge savour the devilish humour, yet bring out the inner sadness too, and their pacing of the all-important second scene is a joy too, the final cloud of cushion feathers dancing to the waves of applause.
Rather , sports during the early colonial times were seen as pagan and devilish things to do.
But the real surprise seller is ‘hot whiskey,’ a devilishly simple Irish favorite.
However, the whole matter of indirect tax liability is devilishly complex and difficult to understand.
But exactly where hippos sit on the artiodactyl family tree has proved devilishly difficult to discern.
All that is connoted by the adjective ‘carnal ‘is the very reverse, and savors of that which is ‘earthly, sensual, devilish.’
I had to get the kick and the hit of the stuff, the crawl of the maggots, the genial brain glow, the laughter tickle, the touch of devilishness and sting, the smile over the face of things, ere I could join my fellows and make one with them. Chapter 31
A devilish grin appeared on Jason's lips as he remember how he had tricked her into tasting one of his father's home-grown peppers.
You'll need, for instance, to come to grips with the devilishly complicated Thai tonal system (even my ultra compact phrase book devotes several pages to it).
Catherine Gill gives a stunning performance as the wickedly devilish sith that toys with Brian and manipulates his every move.
Mirrors were used as ornamentation, but were believed to also blind and confuse devilish spirits, to protect their children from the evil eye.
It also kept the idea of evil as a devilish personal force prowling around ready to get into you.
It wasn't Gallipoli, but it was devilish and the mood at Army Headquarters (originally disbelieving, even mocking) became hard and angry. DARE CALL IT TREASON
The apparent smile on my face, despite my weary state, spoke of signs of contentment, even a return to that mischievous and devilish state of mind.
It is hiera picra, [9] two spoonfuls, devilish stuff! The Journal to Stella
I'd be devilish interested in hearing from anyone ready to thrust a spoke in that brigand's wheel. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
‘Now that you're one short,’ Armando said with a devilish grin as he watched the car depart.
His deranged dare devilishness has earned him a wealth of fans and now, the opportunity to kick Paul Hogan in his Hollywood daks.
It is an atmosphere of terror and bloodshed, a devilish scene of chaos, a barbaric game which is not governed by human discipline, rules and regulations of the sport.
I'll tell you what it is," returned his patron, "I never knew much of that sort of fine ladies, and I believe they may be as capricious as the devil; but there is something in Miss Ashton's change a devilish deal too sudden and too serious for a mere flisk of her own. The Bride of Lammermoor
QUOTATION: Hes tough, maam, tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly. Quotations
Then they give me a knowing grin, or a devilish wink.
She lucked out here with a better cast, and Malkovich is clearly having too much fun playing the villainous, devilish aesthete Ripley.
All that is connoted by the adjective ‘carnal ‘is the very reverse, and savors of that which is ‘earthly, sensual, devilish.’
A shadow seemed to suddenly cross his devilish looks, and he avoided my eyes.
But enforcement is devilishly difficult - and many tax lawyers are making things worse.
The dastardly act which has caused so much pain and misery to the American people and indeed all peace lovers around the globe, was barbaric and devilish.
Dave Thomas designed the 18-hole course, which has received lots of accolades for its undulating fairways, devilish bunkers and spectacular water cascades.
Willetts does a noted comic turn reeling off the complexities of Gordon Brown's devilish clever schemes.
They were devilish devices, slightly higher than the average person's knee. CORMORANT
Also in the store was Cher, who purchased some devilish goods including containers of face paint to create a garish, ghoulish glow.
For some strange reason, he grinned… a very devilish kind of smile.
Because the word ‘demon’ is conceptually associated in English with devilish and sinister powers, the naive boy's apparently unironic repetition of the word takes on the tone of social criticism.
The conflict is keen at first; the Church authorities fight tooth and nail against these relics of heathenism, these devilish rites; but mankind's instinctive paganism is insuppressible, the practices continue as ritual, though losing much of their meaning, and the Church, weary of denouncing, comes to wink at them, while the pagan joy in earthly life begins to colour her own festival. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
It was proper chocolate cake: of the dark and devilish variety, and was suitably squidgy without resembling mousse or turning into mulch at the touch.
Then you must know that I have a devilish rich uncle in the East Indies, Sir Oliver Surface, from whom I have the greatest expectations.
‘In that case, maybe you should kiss all my boo-boos,’ I grinned devilishly.
On home territory, Loch Lomond Sailing Club held their closing keelboat regatta in some devilish conditions.
He saw himself, easily carrying the weight of his friend, a smug grin on his face, and those green peepers of his flashing devilishly.
It would be well, Dick judged, to make the Outlaw act up in real devilishness for a minute or two before the culmination. CHAPTER XXX
Lucy wasn't sure what jarred her most — the rueful note of empathy in his voice or hearing her Christian name caressed by his devilish tongue. Thief Of Hearts
The second movement features a repeated-note motif that is devilishly difficult but that Livingston handles admirably.
She smiled like some devilish beguiler who had tempted me to take the first steps toward sin. Olivia
Her contract with Lucifer didn't force her to befriend those that were evil simply because they were devilish types.
The thing about vastly involved prototypes of this kind is that once they are constructed it is devilishly difficult to dismantle them.
In Apostasia, against a grid of graffiti they glower within black silhouettes that give them a devilish quality.
It indeed would be a devilishly subtle inflection: to imply that someone is aspiring above his station, merely by failing to reduce the vowel of the agentive suffix.
He branded them racist, devilish, and accused them of shamelessly exploiting black artists.
She smiled devilishly taking a swallow of the liquor.
A devilish Maxwell put this cartoon on a corridor wall.
The document was a release, given by Mrs. Stiles to the railway company, -- a printed form, with blanks to be filled in as the individual case should demand; a devilish engine of cozen and covin, constructed in cold blood by the railway company, and supplied to them Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
I'd be devilish interested in hearing from anyone ready to thrust a spoke in that brigand's wheel. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
The abracadabra of the mages operating on their minds, some devilish conjuration. LORD PRESTIMION
And for people who claim to be Christians, there's little Christ and a lot of devilishness in there. David A. Love: The Texas GOP Is A Grand Old Piece of Work
The laugh turned into a snicker, which led into a devilish cackle.
Some of the worst occurred in the crucial scene in which devilish Iachimo (Adrian LaTourelle) goads pure-hearted Posthumus (Mark Bedard) into an ill-considered bet over the fidelity of Posthumus's love, Imogen (Gretchen Hall). 'Cymbeline': A fairy tale without magic
With a devilish grin, he points the water bottle at her.
It is devilishly painful.
Food leans towards European bistro style, while the devilishly handsome bartenders make mean margaritas and fantastic sangria.
What new devilish inventions are being worked on in that vast network that this nation has assiduously devoted to weapons of mass destruction for more than half a century?
Suddenly his confused face formed into a devilish grin.
I'd be frightening were I not so devilishly adorable and totally un-Hand-That-Rocks-The-Cradle-like.
But the tattoo drew her focus to the middle of the design and there the two devilish eyes stared down upon her with hellish fire.
He is a con-man from the ground up, and America embraced his devilishness.
She then glanced back up at Alex and grinned devilishly, only this time it had no real effect on him.
It's a notoriously devilish problem, but from an information flow point of view all of the bodies are part of one object, albeit a generally inscrutable one.
He has a great sense of humour, and there is a devilish wit about him.
Nuns are chasing geese from the kitchen door, and the laundry girls scrub with devilish vigour.
Well, for my part, I think the whole affair can only be accounted for as being a piece of what we men of the world, who do not belong to any church, call devilishness," said Master Raymond hotly. Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem
Yorkshiremen can be devilish thrawn but they often get things right.
It seems that devilish productivity is wreaking havoc with jobs both at home and abroad.
This is very rare, even if you're as devilishly handsome as Yours Truly, but magic when it does happen.
Traditionally, the ugliest fish - the devilish-looking rascasse - are reserved for the rich, rust-coloured fish stew called bouillabaisse.
'devilishness' and we to being 'possessed by the devil.' Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem
Dalton looked at her with a devilish grin.
Costner, with his easy grin, incipient beer belly, thinning hair and bright devilish eyes, plays broken-down convincingly.
In fact, recording locales are devilishly difficult to determine.
The devilishness, the wickedness, and, above all, the pitch of glaring hatred with which the man eyed me and addressed me, were most unpleasant. CHAPTER XIV
Because he was so devilishly attractive that she couldn't resist him?
Intense action, devilishly passionate sex, and fascinating characters … leads readers into an amazing and inventive alternate reality. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
In this game, the player must navigate a devilish labyrinth fighting many evil turbanized sword wielding fiends and avoiding razor sharp spikes of death.
It was a privilege to have known Jack - shy, unassuming but with a devilish sense of humour.
None of the three ever went abroad without that pliant, painted, switch -- a very emblem of devilish cruelty -- in their hands; never returned home, without having used it in the castigation of some unfortunate "darkey," whose evil star had caused him to stray across their track, while riding the rounds of the plantation. The Death Shot A Story Retold
The association of the fox with the devil through shared vices is carried forward to cumulate in the portrayal of the Jesuit as a devilish, vicious and cunning character.
He had committed, planned, and ordered more acts of violence and sheer devilishness than any being I had ever encountered.
A devilish grin flickered across Lysje's face at the thought.
I daren't even speculate on their devilish purposes… begone with your blinding lights and televisual smarm!
the socialists are further handicapped if they believe that capitalists are not only wicked but also devilishly clever
If they must be compared to a mode of transport it should be thoroughbreds, fantastic in full flight but devilishly susceptible to injury, each muscle, ligament and tendon exposed to pressures that would break a lesser being.
The Psychotronic-minded will recall the devilishly handsome performer from his work in THE YOUNG RACERS (1963), DEMENTIA 13 (1963), HUSH, HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964) and "The Squire of Gothos" episode of the original STAR TREK. Is there someone watching us?
A devilish glint sparkled suddenly in her eyes.
She stared blankly ahead and spoke in a voice devoid of her usual devilish mischief.
I was attacked with a violent cephalalgy — that devilish cephalalgy, I believe I have it yet.
On the eve of coming home from school, I would write the Driver to get many of these marsh tackies penned and fed, so they would be in good shape when I got there, and then, getting a half-dozen or more of our negro boys about my age, would bridle these devilish beasts, strap a saddle cloth on, and go bouncing and scampering over the plantation. Memoirs of a southerner, 1840-1923,
With a kind of devilish glee he devises for himself ever more terrible punishments, tortures, eviscerations.
She has a very cheeky, devilish grin and I wanted her to look like my friend Lauran - I don't know if I managed it but that's certainly who she's based on.
Justin Kirk, best known as the devilishly lovable brother-in-law Andy on Weeds, is Harry, and he brings a similar sarcastic charm to this role that he does to his TV character. Understudy Does Just Fine!
He had this sparkly, devilish, bad-boy quality.
‘Come on’, he coaxes, with a devilish little grin while his fingers jiggle in your sides, ‘who's the best?’
He's got shocking red hair, a devilish grin, twinkling eyes and a cheeky appearance.
Fear was strong in their faces, and the devilishness which comes of fear. Chapter 15
They were devilish devices, slightly higher than the average person's knee. CORMORANT
It was with a profound feeling of relief that His Honour lifted the lady from their modest little "flivver," for once inside the Pennington house, he felt, he would be free from a peculiarly devilish brand of persecution inaugurated by his wife about three months previously. The Valley of the Giants
These are devilishly difficult articles to write.
It wasn't Gallipoli, but it was devilish and the mood at Army Headquarters (originally disbelieving, even mocking) became hard and angry. DARE CALL IT TREASON
You have got yourself a little reputation by your literary talents, which I am very far from undervaluing, though in my time, begad, poetry and genius and that sort of thing were devilish disreputable. The History of Pendennis
Mr. Martinoty's solution is wretched excess: an immense library-cum-mad-science lab with a giant crucifix looming above, an older actor lip-synching Mr. Alagna's aged Faust, Mr. Alagna popping out of a space-age sphere in a gold T-shirt after the devilish deal, a huge chorus in a costume mashup that includes Enlightenment academics, Foreign Legionnaires, Second Empire soldiers, beauty contestants in bathing suits, peasant girls in Dutch bonnets, a humongous skeleton in a flurry of rainbow streamers, and carnival maskers part African-part Ensor. Less Is More for 'Faust'
First is the patia, a devilishly hot sweet and sour concoction available with chicken or vegetables.
An elegant 66, she is as much fun, and as self-deprecatingly devilish, as ever, but increasingly aware of time. Times, Sunday Times
However, I'd like to lay eyes on the sort of man who can unjoint this devilish combination of politics and law and finance," he informed himself, trying to justify his own retreat. The Landloper
“Sifr”: I have warned readers that whistling is considered a kind of devilish speech by the Arabs, especially the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I'd be devilish interested in hearing from anyone ready to thrust a spoke in that brigand's wheel. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
Naturally, once China showed a willingness to abandon its axenic attitude towards foreign devils and all things foreign-devilish, the European Powers turned their eyes and energies towards her, and a strenuous commercial and diplomatic race after prospective concessions for railways, mines, and undertakings of all kinds began. William of Germany
Dundee's skills were evident as languid Sara turned the Aberdeen defence, Caballero played devilish deft passes and the diminutive white booted Novo proved a nagging menace.
Growing from the subsoil of peasant culture and shaped by folk religion, they are seraphic, as in Oleksy's devotional works and devilishly rebellious, as in Mucha's powerful carvings.
She picks up a pillow, a devilish grin on her face.
Ashton’s change a devilish deal too sudden and too serious for a mere flisk of her own. The Bride of Lammermoor
It has proven devilishly difficult to get fathers to take a larger role in child-rearing.
Yorkshiremen can be devilish thrawn but they often get things right.
Certainly Chechnya is a devilish hard case to crack.
With the energy of a demoniac, Moby exploded around the stage leaping and bouncing under an impressive lighting system that provided a devilish hue for the night's opening anthems ‘Machete’ and ‘Porcelain.’
No, sir, Jake was not murdered, he just 'sloped' to get away from his devilish second-hand relatives. Two Wonderful Detectives Jack and Gil's Marvelous Skill
I've wanted to test these ideas for years, but had a devilish time coming up with an appropriate experiment.
Emily looked great, as always; Dasha had that tall blonde thing working to perfection, and Helen was quite fetching in a stylish ensemble and a devilish gleam in her eyes.
The devilish playful look in his eye was replaced with a look of anger and rage.
For they did look devilishly far-flung, except for Visbec.
His smile grew devilish, and he pantomimed giving it a push. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
With an expression halfway between knowing and devilishly dirty, he stood upright, picked her up in his arms, and kissed her full on the mouth.
Where this is not observed, there is no real music, but only a devilish blare and hubbub.
Sometimes an otherwise calm and serene person gathers a look that can best be described as devilish. Peter Baksa: Ego: A Bad Word?
I can just imagine the devilish grin on Papa's face when he paid the man.
Think of the precedents—Proteus, Scylla… I am certain there is something extremely edifying in the Bible about Leviathan and a hook, and my old nurse, a dour Scotswoman, used to terrify me with stories of kelpies and other devilish creatures that drowned and ate their victims, apart from their livers. The Mistaken Wife
Robert Johnson sold his soul to play guitar and Keith Richards sold his for a barrel of booze, but The Boggs' murky flint comes from smoking the ashes of both those devilish contracts.
With snake eyes and a bully like laugh, he devilishly teases his son in a friendly game of tetherball.

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