How To Use Devilment In A Sentence
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She was pretty, a lovely devilment in the face, a puckish little smile, tiny pointed ears suggesting otherworldliness.
MAMBO
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There is a devilment to the playing, an almost improvisatory approach that derived from Lipatti's private passion for hot jazz.
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Dad's sly grin reflected the devilment that had returned to his eyes.
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They did create chances, but failure to take them has been the bedevilment of their season.
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Sheer devilment made me raise someone's bid at the last minute.
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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.
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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?’
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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.
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‘When the time comes and the legs do give up I will find some other devilment to get up to,’ she joked.
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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
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There was more devilment than conviction, but the comment spoke volumes about how McLeish and his players' morale had been transformed by the little matter of putting one over on Celtic.
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I'm sure the establishment does this sort of thing for bedevilment.
Porter Not Free Yet....
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Gilead, Ames perceives Jack's questions at a gathering with the Boughtons about predestination as another of his familiar efforts at "bedevilment:" simply trying to cause problems, embarrassment or conflict between Ames and Old Boughton by toying with their differing theological commitments.
The Daily Register
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In a moment of devilment, or perhaps madness, I accepted a mouthful of this evil-smelling mess of which any aspiring witch would be proud.
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He played with panache, skill and a touch of devilment.
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` Some kind of devilment, 'muttered the forest runner.
The Conan Chronicles
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And being part of a crowd has obligations - not shouting ‘fire’ for devilment, for example, in a crowded room.
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She played a trick on him out of sheer devilment.
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‘The worst bedevilment of all is being in exile within one's own skin,’ he wrote.
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I thought, just for devilment, I wonder - if I grew a beard would they throw me out?
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Her pleasant smile, the glint in the eye and genuine sense of fun and devilment made her very popular and you were always assured of a good laugh and a merry time when she was around the place.
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Smitty glanced at her and noticed the bedevilment settling on her features.
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We need to get at them at the back, play well, and have a little bit of devilment in our finishing.
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Her pleasant smile, the glint in the eye and genuine sense of fun and devilment made her very popular and you were always assured of a good laugh and a merry time when she was around the place.
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Now it will be much easier for the judge to determine whether the woman in the case had at the critical time an especial inclination to this "devilment," than to discover whether her own husband was sexually insufficient, or whatever similar secrets might be involved.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
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Some spirit of devilment made her choose `You'll Never Walk Alone" for this, her debut in front of an audience.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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She says that colored people are naturally religious and that they learned all their "devilment" from the Whites.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1
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They both tried to talk of ordinary things for the few moments before that meal was announced, and then some kind of devilment seemed to come into Amaryllis -- nothing could have been more seductive or alluring than her manner, while keeping to strict convention.
The Price of Things
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We ought not to participate in devilment by tolerating it.
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It wasn't like her to give in to Mother - usually she held out just for devilment.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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In the second half, we dominated and with a little more devilment in the box could have won the game.
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He was as bright as a button, full of humour and with a large dash of devilment thrown in!
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She played a trick on him out of sheer devilment.
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Out of devilment, Ferguson then had the audacity to offer a four-to-one bet that Larsson would not score against his team.
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Life, it seems, had other plans for Jim; perhaps it had become a bit dull up on high and they coveted his unique brand of devilment.
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His teacher, Imelda Mulligan said: ‘Brian was a boy who loved life itself and his eyes were full of devilment.’
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Fanatics of despair turned hopeful eyes to Russia where a devilment was brewing which, should it overboil, would pour destruction across five continents.
The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel
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Some kind of devilment," muttered the forest runner.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan
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It is a chance to express their natural desire for a little creative devilment, usually at the expense of their conformist elders.
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One of the "brightest minds" in his class, he was one of the laziest; one of the quickest and most agile when aroused, he was one of the torpids as a rule: One of the kind who should have "gone in for honors," as the faculty said, he came nearer going out for devilment.
Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters
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His list of vices began and ended with the bedevilment of opposing pitchers.
WILLIE MAYS
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In local parlance he would be regarded as a ‘character’, quick-witted and always ready for a bit of ‘devilment’.
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There is too much spring in his step and devilment in his game.
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I guarantee that none of the lessons I've prescribed will take root; I will swear at traffic, get peeved at fellow mortals, drop off to sleep thinking about the petty bedevilments of the coming day.
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Aislinn's eyes widened innocently as a sparkle of devilment brightened them.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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It is so hard for them not to fall into affectations of either virtue or vice, or into some 'devilment' worse still.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Well, I felt queerer and queerer, and Southsea Castle began to spin round and round, and the kickers went dancing up and down, and the ships in the harbour were all turning summersets, and every sort of circumvolution and devilment you could think of took place.
Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor
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In the reaction from Sunday evening's intensity and strain she was especially full of what Miss Cornelia would have called "devilment" on Monday.
Rainbow Valley
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‘It was pure devilment, really,’ O'Neill says.
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Speaking of this time in his life brings a beaming grin to his face - a mixture of devilment and sheer happiness.
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During Samhain, people outfitted themselves in masks and costumes as a sort of protection ritual, believing that one could successfully hide behind such a disguise and thereby escape bedevilment by the masses of spirits on the loose.
Donna Henes: Doing Death Before it Does Us