deviltry in a sentence

Examples

1. On the other hand, Leo always tried peacefully to convince Heliodorus that his behavior and deviltries were thoroughly wrong . But in vain.
2. "Son of Rosemary, " unfortunately, is a devilishly boring read, largely because of its inability to effectively portray postmodern deviltry.
3. It was on May 28 that the Fairchild Deviltry Committee met and formally adopted new provisions for governance, better enabling them to expand the organization.
4. While the once-great actor can still spontaneously conjure some playful deviltry, the self-loathing that has produced his now mammoth girth is a painful distraction.
5. They've taken the characters, and in reverse Twain tradition, white-washed them into fine upstanding citizens with no deviltry, and no charming original thoughts.
6. It took the humbling play of Eldrick Tiger Woods to turn such a tortuous track into his own play toy, a man oblivious to all the built-in deviltry.
7. The punning title refers not only to deviltry in high places but to a children's card game in which the quick and confident will always beat the decent and indecisive.
8. So Blair has to wait, champing at the bit, hoping to keep his fractious Labor shadow-government team intact, fending off all the deviltry the Tory papers can stir up.
9. There is a spice of deviltry in the fellow's nature and it crops out every now and then when he is translating the speeches of slow old Kanakas who do not understand English.
10. Falwell is of course a leader in the Republican Party's conservative legion, and my mossbackery is not so innocent that I am blind to the possibility of Democratic Party deviltry behind this deed.