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How to use devilment in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word devilment? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He was as bright as a button, full of humour and with a large dash of devilment thrown in!
There is a devilment to the playing, an almost improvisatory approach that derived from Lipatti's private passion for hot jazz.
Out of devilment, Ferguson then had the audacity to offer a four-to-one bet that Larsson would not score against his team.
In the second half, we dominated and with a little more devilment in the box could have won the game.
It is a chance to express their natural desire for a little creative devilment, usually at the expense of their conformist elders.
We need to get at them at the back, play well, and have a little bit of devilment in our finishing.
The tournament committee clearly had some devilment at play in pairing up partners.
Sheer devilment made me raise someone's bid at the last minute.
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.
There is too much spring in his step and devilment in his game.
Your life won't be nothin but a long Tuesday night of devilment — Tuesday night and all day Wednesday... Kissin Miss Hattie's hand with them drunken lips.
He's fearless, he's not afraid to take the ball in tight situations, he's getting kicked and he gets up and goes back for more and he's got that bit of devilment in him as well, so he has got all the attributes.
The November verdict was a devilment of its own, because the head of the health care group had previously been convicted of conspiring to give those bribes.
Examples from Classical Literature
Now I reckoned you had kep' him in for some devilment of his'n, or lessons.
My dear Ned, I'm no prude, but there's always some devilment in the blood in these cases.
But nearly every religion has accounted for all the devilment in this world by the crime of woman.
That's Tim himself, that's been doing all the devilment about here.
I think there was a good deal of devilment in the things she did.
What is the special form that Tony's devilment has taken, may I ask?
Surely you do not suspect her of having a hand in the devilment?
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