devilment

How To Use devilment In A Sentence

• She was pretty, a lovely devilment in the face, a puckish little smile, tiny pointed ears suggesting otherworldliness. MAMBO
• There is a devilment to the playing, an almost improvisatory approach that derived from Lipatti's private passion for hot jazz.
• Dad's sly grin reflected the devilment that had returned to his eyes.
• They did create chances, but failure to take them has been the bedevilment of their season.
• Sheer devilment made me raise someone's bid at the last minute.
• Her hearty, infectious laugh and sense of devilment endeared her to everyone in the community as evidenced by the crowds who turned out for her removal to St. Joseph's, Geevagh on Tuesday evening.
• No doubt eldest will not say a word until Christmas lunch when she'll engineer a spat just for pure devilment, saying ‘why didn't she get a say?’
• The colourful and flamboyant solicitor, famous for his Cuban cigars, quick wit, and genial sense of devilment, attained folk hero status among the showbiz fraternity.
• ‘When the time comes and the legs do give up I will find some other devilment to get up to,’ she joked.
• Mr. Tate, his dog under his arm, paused at the door to fling over his shoulder another muttered taunt about "bedevilment," and disappeared. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul