What is "devilish"

Usage examples of "devilish".

I am glad I was not in your place, and sorry that the savages should have had the encouragement of your presence at one of their devilish orgies.

Why not stop this perpetual devilish fighting and give Bibbs his chance?

God knows with whom you did pass them, but I mean to find out if the whole story is not the creation of your devilish brain, and when I do so I will inform you.

So much that was heathen, so much that was bad, was mixed up with what might seem to be simple credulity, and the harmless folk-customs of some grandam tradition and immemorial usage, a song or a country dance mayhap, innocent enough on the surface, and even pleasing, so often were but the cloak and the mask for something devilish and obscene, that the Church deemed it necessary to forbid and proscribe the whole superstition even when it manifested itself in modest fashion and seemed guileless, innoxious, and of no account.

He did not realize that I saw, that instant, into his soul and perceived the devilish intent that lay hidden there, coiled and waiting to be unleashed when all around had been lulled into thinking him a fool.

Maria Rosso, one of the few women of his acquaintance who knew how to appreciate both a fine whiskey and the devilish intoxication that followed, and all he could smell was the damned scent of Kate Sheffield.

Before he finally died in harness, Ruggy had introduced Victoria to the fact that a substantial section of the power elite had a devilish need to physically ease their most deep-seated guilts.

Yes, and another devilish good thing would be if either of you had as much rumgumption as a couple of sparrows!

Alice sent over a devilish grin, started patting her robe in search of something, her hands momentarily fixating on her breasts before they slid down into the pockets and withdrew an old-fashioned cigarette case with a burnished gold finish, the size of a CD, and a matching slimline lighter.

Bannor forced himself to turn a blind eye to their devilish doings, promising himself that every humiliation Willow endured at their hands would only serve to spare her pride when she was finally goaded into spurning him.

The Zamorian traitor was a smiling, laughing villain, dear to a Turanian heart Small, lean, lithe, and swaggering, handsome and reckless as a young god, Vardanes was an amusing drinking companion and a devilish fighter but as cold-hearted and untrustworthy as an adder.

His thick eyebrows, Enderby now noticed, had been given, perhaps by art, a devilish upsweep at the outer edges.

His face straight, he grinned at Prew with his eyebrows, and a devilish pixy peered out from behind his face with unholy glee.

He was gripped by evil eagerness, that brought a devilish leer to his rattish face.

Who whispered those abominable words to that errant strumpet, Audrey, and who devised those most unhonest and devilish dealings against the property of your wife?