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How to use devilish in a sentence

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In the ninth, the devilish player lifted a long fly ball that fell behind him in center for a pinch-hit triple.
She lucked out here with a better cast, and Malkovich is clearly having too much fun playing the villainous, devilish aesthete Ripley.
He branded them racist, devilish, and accused them of shamelessly exploiting black artists.
He branded Sony racist and devilish, and accused it of shamelessly exploiting black artists.
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.
Thanatos, the horrifying creature of death and decay, turned a devilish head towards the hero.
However, much to the man's surprise, the devilish animal scampered away just as the dog had done.
In Apostasia, against a grid of graffiti they glower within black silhouettes that give them a devilish quality.
Mirrors were used as ornamentation, but were believed to also blind and confuse devilish spirits, to protect their children from the evil eye.
Northern Ireland and the Balkans demonstrate that the dark side of religion is truly devilish!
It seems that devilish productivity is wreaking havoc with jobs both at home and abroad.
I've wanted to test these ideas for years, but had a devilish time coming up with an appropriate experiment.
On home territory, Loch Lomond Sailing Club held their closing keelboat regatta in some devilish conditions.
Catherine Gill gives a stunning performance as the wickedly devilish sith that toys with Brian and manipulates his every move.
The days are gone of National's tired old mantra of attacking unionists as if they were evil and devilish.
With a kind of devilish glee he devises for himself ever more terrible punishments, tortures, eviscerations.
The makeup for the Djinn character is creepy and evil, like some devilish creature from an R-rated version of Star Wars.
A shadow seemed to suddenly cross his devilish looks, and he avoided my eyes.
She stared blankly ahead and spoke in a voice devoid of her usual devilish mischief.
From where Cal stands, looking down, each toe seems to smile with a devilish black arc of under nail dirt.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He has nosed his way in here to-night as a reporter, for some devilish purpose.
He 's a kind of a bill-broking, mortgaging, bail-giving, devilish good sort of fellow.
What might instigate him to this devilish act, I am not able to conjecture.
They revelled in the devilish halo of skirts on the whirl encircling Lord Ormont's laurelled head.
To all races there has been something devilish, or at least demonic, in the action of leaven.
Without that rootless, worthless, devilish fancy, I might have been no worse than other people!
It is not simple innocent nature that we would exile, but the devilish and libidinous corruptions that sully nature.
That which falleth in Heaven is devilish, but that which stumbleth on earth is human.
He straightened his back more, making it pop and gave her his devilish grin, the one where his wonky eyebrow went up and down.
But you may bet your bottom dollar it was some part of their devilish conspiracy.
I say it only shows his foolish, impious pride, and abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy.
His face was contorted with devilish triumph, and I knew he meant to kill.
And a devilish piece of luck it was, for I have been hustling ever since.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
Is he not a devilish good-looking, gentlemanlike sort of fellow?
Casaubon has devilish good reasons, you may be sure, for turning the cold shoulder on a young fellow whose bringing-up he paid for.
So spake the Fiend, and with necessitie, The Tyrants plea, excus'd his devilish deeds.
I was devilish imperfect in Edgar, t'other night at lymington.
Its devilish power to paralyze and still the soul of him was gone.
I can tell you that you have found the most artful, lying, pilfering, devilish little minx that was ever born.
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